US10008526B2
An image sensor may include: a photoelectric conversion element suitable for generating a photo charge in response to incident light; and a transfer transistor suitable for transferring the photo charge generated by the photoelectric conversion element to a floating diffusion in response to a transfer signal, the transfer transistor comprising a first transfer gate formed over the photoelectric conversion element; an opening formed in the first transfer gate and exposing the photoelectric conversion element; a second transfer gate formed in the opening; and a channel layer interposed between the first and second transfer gates and between the photoelectric conversion element and the second transfer gate.
US10008520B2
A semiconductor device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a first terminal and a second terminal stacked with a first conductive layer including titanium or molybdenum, a second conductive layer including aluminum above the first conductive layer, and a third conductive layer including titanium or molybdenum above the second conductive layer, a first insulation layer between the first terminal and the second terminal, a second insulation layer between the first insulation layer contacting a side wall part of the first terminal, and a fourth conducing layer extending an upper surface of the first terminal and an upper surface of the second insulation layer. The first terminal and the second terminal are arranged on an exterior side of a drive circuit including a semiconductor element.
US10008517B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel includes a scan line extending in a first direction. Each pixel also includes a data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and a driving thin-film transistor (TFT) formed adjacent to the data line and including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The pixel also includes an interlayer insulating layer formed between the data line and the driving TFT, and a first through hole is formed in the interlayer insulating layer to be adjacent to the data line and the gate electrode. Each pixel also includes a driving voltage line formed adjacent to the data line and including a first portion formed in the first through hole and formed on the interlayer insulating layer.
US10008512B2
A semiconductor device may include pipe channel layer, and a pipe gate surrounding the pipe channel layer. The semiconductor device may include an oxidization layer formed between the pipe gate and the pipe channel layer. The semiconductor device may include a source side channel layer and a drain side channel layer extended from the pipe channel layer to protrude further than the oxidization layer.
US10008505B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming contact pads spaced apart from each other in a first direction on a substrate and between first insulating patterns; forming first holes between the first insulating patterns and having bottom ends adjacent top surfaces of the contact pads; forming second holes between second insulating patterns and overlapping with partial portions of the first holes in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and forming a bottom electrode layer including first portions to cover the bottom ends of the first holes and sidewalls of the second holes. In forming the first and second holes, the first and second holes are formed simultaneously.
US10008501B2
The present disclosure relates to a transistor device having a channel region comprising a sandwich film stack with a plurality of different layers that improve device performance, and an associated apparatus. In some embodiments, the transistor device has a source region and a drain region disposed within a semiconductor substrate. A sandwich film stack is laterally positioned between the source region and the drain region. The sandwich film stack has a lower layer, a middle layer of a carbon doped semiconductor material disposed over the lower layer, and an upper layer disposed over the middle layer. A gate structure is disposed over the sandwich film stack. The gate structure is configured to control a flow of charge carriers in a channel region located between the source region and the drain region.
US10008495B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor structure including an active region having a first doped region, a first contact member on the first doped region, first and second gates on opposite sides of the first contact member, an interlayer dielectric layer surrounding the first and second gates and the first contact member. The method also includes forming a first insulator layer having first and second contact holes, forming a second insulator layer on sidewalls of the first and second contact holes, filling the first and second contact holes with a first conductive material to form first and second contacts to the first and second gates, forming a third insulator layer on the first and second contacts, selectively etching the first insulator layer to form a third contact hole, and filling the third contact hole with a second conductive material to form a third contact to the first contact member.
US10008485B2
A semiconductor device and method for providing an enhanced removal of heat from a semiconductor die within an integrated fan out package on package configuration is presented. In an embodiment a metal layer is formed on a backside of the semiconductor die, and the semiconductor die along and through vias are encapsulated. Portions of the metal layer are exposed and a thermal die is connected to remove heat from the semiconductor die.
US10008464B2
The present invention relates to a smart BGA chip maintenance device comprising a base, a moving worktable, a horizontal slide, a vertical slide, a grinding knife, an electronic microscope and a mini-sized air compressor, wherein the base comprises a platform and a portal frame. The moving worktable is propelled by a first driving mechanism, wherein the horizontal slide is propelled by a second driving mechanism, wherein the vertical slide is propelled by a third driving mechanism. Both a grinding knife and an electronic microscope are provided on the vertical slide. An air pipe is disposed at the side of the grinding knife, wherein the grinding knife is propelled by a fourth driving mechanism to rotate, wherein the device can automatically perceive the flatness of the chip, ensuring a horizontal grinding process and avoiding the damage to the soldering pad of the circuit board.
US10008463B2
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor die surrounded by a molding compound. The semiconductor package further includes a first conductive pad on the first semiconductor die, wherein the first conductive pad is at a top metal level of the first semiconductor die. The semiconductor package further includes redistribution lines (RDLs) formed over the first conductive pad, wherein at least one RDL of the RDLs extends beyond the boundaries of the semiconductor die, and a portion of the at least one RDL contacts the first conductive pad, wherein a surface of the first conductive pad contacting the portion of the at least one RDL is at a different level than a surface of the molding compound under the at least one RDL extended beyond the boundaries of the first semiconductor die.
US10008460B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor package is provided. The semiconductor package includes: a chip having a plurality of joint pads; a component having a plurality of metal caps on one side and having a grinded surface on the other side, wherein the metal caps are in contact with the joint pads of the chip.
US10008450B2
An integrated circuit and method comprising an underlying metal geometry, a dielectric layer on the underlying metal geometry, a contact opening through the dielectric layer, an overlying metal geometry wherein a portion of the overlying metal geometry fills a portion of the contact opening, and an oxidation resistant barrier layer disposed between the underlying metal geometry and overlying metal geometry. The oxidation resistant barrier layer is formed of TaN or TiN with a nitrogen content of at least 20 atomic % and a thickness of at least 5 nm.
US10008446B2
A structure for an e-Fuse device in a semiconductor device is described. The e-Fuse device includes an anode region, a cathode region and a fuse element which interconnects the anode and cathode regions in a dielectric material on a first surface of a substrate. The fuse element has a smaller cross section and a higher aspect ratio than the anode and cathode regions. The anode and cathode regions are comprised of a high EM-resistant conductive material. The fuse element is comprised of low EM-resistant conductive material.
US10008430B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a frame which has a first surface, holds the semiconductor element on the first surface, and is electrically connected with the semiconductor element; and a seal which has electrical insulation properties and seals the semiconductor element and the frame, wherein a through-hole is formed in the seal, the through-hole has a hole axis which extends in a direction intersecting with the first surface, and an inner peripheral end surface of the seal exposed inside the through-hole is inclined with respect to the hole axis.
US10008429B2
A semiconductor device reduces measurement time. The semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the invention includes: plural series-coupled resistance elements for testing; plural switches coupled to a coupling path coupling the resistance elements; and plural selection circuits to select, by turning on or off the switches, a number of the series-coupled resistance elements to be measured as a group. In the semiconductor device: the switches include plural first switches coupled to plural groups of the resistance elements, each of the groups including N (N=2 or a larger integer) of the resistance elements; and the selection circuits turn the first switches on or off and thereby select a number of the series-coupled resistance elements to be measured as a group, the number equaling the N.
US10008423B1
Methods and apparatuses for modifying a work function of transistors included in an integrated circuit are disclosed. A tester unit may be configured to test an integrated circuit that includes a plurality of circuit paths. The tester unit may be further configured to analyze the results from testing the integrated circuit and, based on the analysis, identify a circuit path that fails to meet a desired performance goal. A work function of a transistor included in the identified circuit path may be modified by the tester unit using an energy source external to the integrated circuit.
US10008412B2
Described are methods for controlling the doping of metal nitride films such as TaN, TiN and MnN. The temperature during deposition of the metal nitride film may be controlled to provide a film density that permits a desired amount of doping. Dopants may include Ru, Cu, Co, Mn, Mo, Al, Mg, Cr, Nb, Ta, Ti and V. The metal nitride film may optionally be exposed to plasma treatment after doping.
US10008404B2
An electrostatic chuck assembly includes a puck and a cooling plate. The puck includes an electrically insulative upper puck plate comprising one or more heating elements and one or more electrodes to electrostatically secure a substrate and further includes a lower puck plate bonded to the upper puck plate by a metal bond, the lower puck plate comprising a plurality of features distributed over a bottom side of the lower puck plate at a plurality of different distances from a center of the lower puck plate, wherein each of the plurality of features accommodates one of a plurality of fasteners. The cooling plate is coupled to the puck by the plurality of fasteners, wherein the plurality of fasteners each apply an approximately equal fastening force to couple the cooling plate to the puck.
US10008400B2
A substrate processing device capable of stabilizing an etching amount of a metal film provided on a substrate is provided. The substrate processing device includes a first container, a second container and a control unit. The first container stores a first liquid in which an acid solution containing phosphoric acid and water are mixed. The first liquid is capable of etching a metal film provided on a substrate. The second container stores a second liquid containing water. The control unit controls supply of the second liquid from the second container to the first container such that a water concentration of the first liquid increases over time corresponding to change in a concentration of the phosphoric acid in the first liquid.
US10008392B2
A power semiconductor module is produced by: providing an electrically conductive terminal block having a screw thread, a connecting conductor having first and second sections, a module housing, a circuit carrier having a dielectric insulation carrier and an upper metallization layer on an upper side of the insulation carrier, and a semiconductor component; fitting the semiconductor component on the circuit carrier; producing a firm and electrically conductive connection between the terminal block and the connecting conductor at the first section; producing a material-fit and electrically conductive connection between the circuit carrier or the semiconductor component and the connecting conductor at the second section; and arranging the terminal block and the circuit carrier fitted with the semiconductor component on the module housing so the semiconductor component is arranged in the module housing and the screw thread is accessible from an outer side of the module housing.
US10008383B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure includes a substrate and an epitaxy region that is partially disposed in the substrate. A doping concentration of the epitaxy region increases from a bottom portion to a top portion of the epitaxy region. The present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the semiconductor structure, including forming a recess in a substrate; forming an epitaxy region in the recess; and in situ doping the epitaxy region to form a doping concentration profile increasing from a bottom portion to a top portion of the epitaxy region.
US10008375B2
The invention generally relates to systems for analyzing a sample and methods of use thereof. In certain aspects, the invention provides systems that include an ionization probe and a mass analyzer. The probe includes a hollow body that has a distal tip. The probe also includes a substrate that is at least partially disposed within the body and positioned prior to the distal tip so that sample extracted from the substrate flows into the body prior to exiting the distal tip. The probe also includes an electrode that operably interacts with sample extracted from the substrate.
US10008368B2
A gas injection system includes (a) a side gas plenum, (b) a plurality of N gas inlets coupled to said side gas plenum, (c) plural side gas outlets extending radially inwardly from said plenum, (d) an N-way gas flow ratio controller having N outputs coupled to said N gas inlets respectively, and (e) an M-way gas flow ratio controller having M outputs, respective ones of said M outputs coupled to said tunable gas nozzle and a gas input of said N-way gas flow ratio controller.
US10008365B2
An ion milling device of the present invention is provided with a tilt stage (8) which is disposed in a vacuum chamber (15) and has a tilt axis parallel to a first axis orthogonal to an ion beam, a drive mechanism (9, 51) which has a rotation axis and a tilt axis parallel to a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and rotates or tilts a sample (3), and a switching unit which enables switching between a state in which the ion beam is applied while the sample is rotated or swung while the tilt stage is tilted, and a state in which the ion beams is applied while the tilt stage is brought into an untilted state and the sample is swung. Consequently, the ion milling device capable of performing cross-section processing and flat processing of the sample in the same vacuum chamber is implemented.
US10008362B1
Fiber feedthrough device (50), for forming a hermetic seal around optical fibers in a flat fiber group (60) with a group width. The device comprises a slotted member and a base (62). The base defines a hole (65) that extends entirely through the base along a feedthrough direction (X), and is adapted to accommodate the slotted member. The slotted member (52) defines first and second surfaces (53) on opposite sides associated with the feedthrough direction, and a side surface (55, 56) facing transverse to the feedthrough direction. The slotted member comprises a slot (58), which extends along the feedthrough direction through the slotted member, and opens into the first and second surfaces and into a longitudinal opening (59) along the side surface. The slot extends transversely into the slotted member up to a slot depth at least equal to the fiber group width.
US10008360B2
The device includes a beam source for generating an electron beam, a beam guiding tube passed through an objective lens, an objective lens for generating a magnetic field in the vicinity of the specimen to focus the particles of the particle beam on the specimen, a control electrode having a potential for providing a retarding field to the particle beam near the specimen to reduce the energy of the particle beam when the beam collides with the specimen, a deflection system including a plurality of deflection units situated along the optical axis for deflecting the particle beam to allow scanning on the specimen with large area, at least one of the deflection units located in the retarding field of the beam, the remainder of the deflection units located within the central bore of the objective lens, and a detection unit to capture secondary electron (SE) and backscattered electrons (BSE).
US10008359B2
An X-ray tube can include: a cathode including an electron emitter; an anode configured to receive the emitted electrons; a first magnetic quadrupole between the cathode and the anode and having a first quadrupole yoke with four first quadrupole pole projections extending from the first quadrupole yoke and oriented toward a central axis of the first quadrupole yoke and each of the four first quadrupole pole projections having a first quadrupole electromagnetic coil; a second magnetic quadrupole between the first magnetic quadruple and the anode and having a second quadrupole yoke with four second quadrupole pole projections extending from the second quadrupole yoke and oriented toward a central axis of the second quadrupole yoke and each of the four second quadrupole pole projections having a second quadrupole electromagnetic coil; and a magnetic dipole between the cathode and anode and having a dipole yoke with four dipole electromagnetic coils.
US10008358B2
Disclosed is an X-ray source, including: a cathode including a shielding channel through which an X-ray passes; emitters formed on an upper surface of the cathode, and arranged around the shielding channel; an anode positioned so as to face the cathode, and including an anode target in which an E-beam is focused; and a gate electrode positioned between the cathode and the anode, and including gate holes at positions corresponding to those of the emitters.
US10008357B2
Disclosed herein are a high-voltage generator for an x-ray source, an x-ray gun, an electron beam apparatus, a rotary vacuum seal, a target assembly for an x-ray source, a rotary x-ray emission target, and an x-ray source. These various aspects may separately and/or together enable the construction of an x-ray source which can operate at energies of up to 500 kV and beyond, which is suitable for use in commercial and research x-ray applications such as computerised tomography. In particular, the high-voltage generator includes a shield electrode electrically connected intermediate of a first voltage multiplier and a second voltage multiplier. The electron beam apparatus includes control photodetectors and photo emitters having a transparent conductive shield arranged therebetween. The rotary vacuum seal includes a pumpable chamber at a position intermediate between high-pressure and low-pressure ends of a bore for a rotating shaft. The rotary target assembly is configured such that when a torque between a bearing housing and a vacuum housing exceeds a predetermined torque, the bearing housing rotates relative to the vacuum housing. The rotary x-ray emission target has a plurality of target plates supported on a hub, the plates being arranged on the hub to provide an annular target region about an axis rotation of the hub. The x-ray gun is provided with a shield electrode maintained at a potential difference relative to the x-ray target different to the electron beam emission cathode.
US10008353B2
A metering apparatus includes a support; a connection apparatus disposed on the support and structured to be electrically connected with a circuit interrupter; a detection apparatus disposed on the support and structured to detect a first operational aspect of the circuit interrupter; a communication apparatus in communication with the detection apparatus, the communication apparatus being disposed on the support; a first bidirectional communications port disposed on a first side of the support and in communication with the communication apparatus; and a second bidirectional communications port disposed on a second side, opposite the first side, of the support and in communication with the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus is structured to communicate to another device via at least one of the first communications port or the second communications port at least a first parameter of the circuit interrupter based at least in part upon the first operational aspect.
US10008349B2
A switch device is presented. The switch device comprises a magnet supported such that it can be tilted, a transmitter device coupled to the magnet, designed to cause a tilting movement of the magnet in response to a switch actuation of the switch device, and a sensor device, having a first sensor element and a second sensor element for detecting the tilting movement, wherein the first sensor element is designed to acquire a plurality of first magnetic field values of a magnetic field shift of a magnetic field generated by the magnet caused by the tilting movement, and the second sensor element is designed to acquire a plurality of second magnetic field values of a second magnetic field shift of the magnetic field generated by the magnetic caused by the tilting movement.
US10008346B1
A waterproof keyboard, including a keypad and a plurality of keys passing through the keypad. The keypad includes a compressive waterproof layer, a plate structure, and a plurality of through-holes, the compressive waterproof layer covering the plate structure, and the through-hole passing through the compressive waterproof layer and the plate structure. Each of the keys passes through one of the through-holes, and the compressive waterproof layer and the plate structure are clamped by means of a slot that is formed on a lateral surface of the key, to enable the key to be sealed with the compressive waterproof layer to form a sealed layer, so as to achieve the waterproof effect.
US10008344B2
A switch assembly is adapted to be disposed in a holding portion of a hand-held device. The switch assembly includes first and second keys, first and second connecting portions, a switch element and a plunger. The first and second keys are exposed on the surface of the holding portion and respectively disposed on the opposite sides thereof. The first and second connecting portions respectively connect the first and second keys and the holding portion. The first and second connecting portions are disposed for allowing the first key having a displacement toward the second key along their connecting direction. The switch element is located inside of the holding portion, and the first key has a first backside toward the second key. The second key has a second backside toward the first key. The plunger is adapted to press and activate the switch element through the displacement.
US10008343B2
An apparatus and method for a safety interlock door switch tool are disclosed. An example embodiment includes: support posts having a top end and a bottom end; base elements coupled to the bottom end of the support posts, an attachment mechanism being coupled to the base elements; a grip element coupled to the top end of the support posts; and a plurality of switch depression surfaces formed between the support posts, each of the plurality of switch depression surfaces being configured to engage and activate a particular type of safety interlock door switch.
US10008338B2
Disclosed here is a method for increasing the hydrophilicity of a carbon aerogel, comprising heating the carbon aerogels under air or a gas having a higher concentration of oxygen than air at a temperature of about 200°-500° C. to obtain an activated carbon aerogel. Also disclosed include an activated carbon aerogel obtained by the method, an electrode comprising the activated carbon aerogel, and a supercapacitor or capacitive deionization device comprising the electrode.
US10008331B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic element body including internal electrodes and external electrodes electrically connected to respective internal electrodes. Each of the external electrodes includes a sintered metal layer including glass and metal and a conductive resin layer including resin and metal particles. In a cross section of the multilayer ceramic capacitor, at an interface between the sintered metal layer and the conductive resin layer, recesses having a shape in which a dimension of an inner portion is larger than a dimension of an inlet are present, and L1/L2 is about 0.2 or more and about 1.5 or less, where L1 is a length along the interface at which the glass of the sintered metal layer is exposed at the interface, and L2 is a length along the interface at which the metal of the sintered metal layer is exposed at the interface.
US10008326B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component in which an interface of an edge region of an external electrode that extends around to a side surface of a ceramic body and the ceramic configuring a surface of the ceramic body, an inorganic matter is present containing 26 mol % or more and less than 45 mol % of SiO2 and having a molar ratio (TiO2+ZrO2)/(SiO2+TiO2+ZrO2) of 0.154 or more, or an inorganic matter is present containing 45 mol % or more of SiO2 and having a molar ratio (TiO2+ZrO2)/(SiO2+TiO2+ZrO2) of 0.022 or more. Furthermore, the inorganic matter may contain B2O3 having a molar ratio relative to SiO2 within 0.25≤B2O3/SiO2≤0.5.
US10008324B2
A method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core using a soft magnetic material powder, wherein the method has: a first step of mixing the soft magnetic material powder with a binder, a second step of subjecting a mixture obtained through the first step to pressure forming, and a third step of subjecting a formed body obtained through the second step to heat treatment. The soft magnetic material powder is an Fe—Cr—Al based alloy powder comprising Fe, Cr and Al. An oxide layer is formed on a surface of the soft magnetic material powder by the heat treatment. The oxide layer has a higher ratio by mass of Al to the sum of Fe, Cr and Al than an alloy phase inside the powder.
US10008321B2
A small size transformer is provided with hollow bobbin which has flange-shaped end parts at least on both ends of winding shaft part around which conducting wire formed of reinforced insulation wire is wound, and is formed by through-hole being pierced between the flange parts, box-shaped cover member to be covered on an outside of the bobbin, and magnetic core part formed by combining two E-shaped core members in a manner of surrounding side surface outer circumferential part of cover member, in which middle leg portions of the core members are configured in a manner of being inserted into the through-hole of the bobbin, in which sidewall parts of cover member to be interposed between the wiring part wound around bobbin and the core members are not provided therebetween.
US10008318B2
In one embodiment, an inductor has a substrate, a conductor disposed above the substrate and a seamless ferromagnetic material surrounding at least a first portion of the conductor.
US10008317B2
This patent discloses an active impedance-injection module for dynamic line balancing of a high-voltage (HV) transmission line. The impedance-injection module comprises a plurality of transformers each having a primary winding in series with a HV transmission line. Each transformer also has secondary windings, each connected to an individual electronic converter. The plurality of secondary windings are electrically isolated from the associated primary winding and extract power from the HV transmission line for operation of the converters and other circuits connected to the secondary windings. The active impedance-injection module is enabled to generate a controlled impedance, inductive or capacitive, to be impressed on the HV transmission line. A plurality of active impedance-injection modules spatially distributed on a HV transmission line are enabled to inject a controlled cumulative impedance on a HV transmission line while limiting the capacity of individual converters to that achievable with practical electronic components.
US10008314B2
An electric coil apparatus has at least two subcoils from a superordinate doubly connected tape conductor. The coil apparatus has at least two conductor branches, each of the subcoils being wound from one of these conductor branches respectively. The conductor branches of the superordinate tape conductor have a superordinate first surface and a superordinate second surface facing away from this first surface. In a first subcoil, the first surface of the tape conductor faces a centerpoint of the first subcoil, and in a second subcoil, the second surface of the tape conductor faces a centerpoint of the second subcoil. Furthermore, in a manufacturing method of such a coil apparatus the two conductor branches are routed parallel to each other so as to dorm the subcoils.
US10008310B1
A resistor element includes a first terminal and a second terminal disposed on opposite end portions of a base substrate, respectively. A first resistance layer is connected to the first terminal and formed of a thick film resistor, and a second resistance layer is connected to the first resistance layer and the second terminal and is formed of a thin film resistor.
US10008295B2
An emergency core cooling system is provided with at least four active safety divisions each equipped with a motor-driven active safety system, and at least one passive safety division equipped with passive system that does not require to be electrically driven. The number of active safety divisions is grater than the number of active safety divisions needed during a design basis accident by two or more, and each active safety division is provided with one motor-driven active safety system. The passive safety system can cool the reactor core without being re-supplied with cooling water from the outside during the time period needed for the active safety system subjected to online maintenance to recover if an accident occurred during online maintenance of one active safety system. In an emergency core cooling system for a boiling water nuclear power plant, it is possible to reduce the size of an emergency power source and the number of systems that lose the function caused by an auxiliary cooling system losing the function.
US10008289B2
A semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same are provided. The method of operating the semiconductor memory device includes detecting a first group of changed bits between first and second page data, by comparing the first and second page data, which are read out using first and second test voltages from the memory cells, respectively, detecting a second group of changed bits between the second page data and a third page data, by comparing the second page data with the third page data read out from the memory cells using a third test voltage, comparing the numbers of the first and second groups of changed bits, and determining one of the first to third test voltages as a read voltage according to the comparing of the numbers of the first and second groups of changed bits.
US10008287B2
Apparatuses and methods for an interface chip are described. An example apparatus includes a first chip. The first chip includes, on a single semiconductor substrate, first terminals, circuit groups, and terminal groups corresponding to the circuit groups, each of the circuit groups including circuit blocks. A control circuit in the first chip selects one of the circuit groups and electrically couples the first terminals to the circuit blocks of the selected circuit group. Second terminals are included in each of the terminal groups. A number of all of the second terminals in each of the terminal groups is smaller than a number of all of the circuit blocks in the corresponding circuit group. The first chip further includes, for example, a remapping circuit.
US10008286B2
Systems and methods for self-testing archival memory devices are described. The memory device includes a data storage component capable of being coded with data. The memory device further includes a read-write mechanism configured to read, write, and delete data stored on the data storage component. The memory device includes a read-write controller configured to control the read-write mechanism based on input received through a device interface of the memory device, wherein the device interface of the memory device is configured to connect to an external computing device. The memory device further includes a diagnostic controller configured to perform a test on at least one of the data stored on the data storage component, the data storage component, and the read-write mechanism. The memory device includes a power source configured to provide operational power to the diagnostic controller when the memory device is not connected to an external power source.
US10008273B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for read level determination. A block of non-volatile storage cells has a plurality of bit lines. A controller for a block is configured to perform a first read on a set of storage cells using a first read level for the bit lines. A controller is configured to determine a second read level for at least a portion of the bit lines based at least partially on a first read. A controller is configured to perform a second read on a set of storage cells using a second read level for at least a portion of bit lines.
US10008270B2
A programming method of a non-volatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of cell strings includes sequentially applying a first pass voltage to unselected word lines of word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells during a first interval and a second pass voltage higher than the first pass voltage to the unselected word lines during a second interval; and applying a discharge voltage lower than a program voltage to a selected word line of the word lines connected to the plurality of memory cells after applying the program voltage to the selected word line in the first interval, and applying the program voltage to the selected word line during the second interval.
US10008262B2
A semiconductor memory includes a cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells in which a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows are arranged, a read voltage application circuit configured to apply a read voltage to a selected memory cell of the plurality of resistive memory cells, a sensing circuit configured to detect an amount of a current flowing through the selected memory cell and sense data, and an overcurrent prevention circuit configured to reduce voltage levels at both ends of the selected memory cell when an overcurrent flows through the selected memory cell.
US10008261B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) includes an array of storage cells and a first sense amplifier. The array of storage cells is arranged as rows and columns. The rows correspond to word lines and the columns correspond to bit lines. The first sense amplifier includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first sense amplifier is configured to provide a first read of a first storage cell of the array of storage cells. Based on the first read of the first storage cell failing to correctly read data stored in the first storage cell, the first sense amplifier is configured to increment a body bias of the first transistor a first time. In response to the body bias of the first transistor being incremented, the first sense amplifier is configured to provide a second read of the first storage cell.
US10008259B1
A system and method for efficient power, performance and stability tradeoffs of memory accesses are described. A memory includes an array of cells for storing data and a sense amplifier for controlling access to the array. The cells receive word line inputs for data access driven by a first voltage supply. The sense amplifier includes first precharge logic, which receives a first precharge input driven by the first power supply used by the array. Therefore, the first precharge input has similar timing characteristics as the word line input used in the array. The sense amplifier includes second precharge logic, which receives a second precharge input driven by a second power supply not used by the array and provides precharged values on bit lines driven by the second power supply.
US10008253B1
A memory cell includes a plurality of thyristors each having a first end and a second. The memory cell further includes a plurality of bit-lines. Each of the plurality of thyristors are electrically coupled to one of the plurality of bit-lines at a first end. A local word line is electrically coupled to the second end of each of the thyristors. A selector is electrically coupled to the local word line. The selector is configured to selectively electrically couple the local word line to a data line.
US10008248B2
Devices or circuits based on spin torque transfer (STT) and Spin Hall effect are disclosed by using a spin Hall effect (SHE) metal layer coupled to a magnetic free layer for various applications. The efficiency or strength of the STT effect based on this combination of SHE and STT can be enhanced by an interface modification between the SHE metal layer and the magnetic free layer or by modifying or engineering the SHE metal layer by doping the SHE metal with certain impurities or other means.
US10008235B1
A disc grabbing device including a body, a drive shaft, a first cam, a second cam, multiple first movable parts and multiple second movable parts are provided. The drive shaft is rotatably disposed in the body. A first cam and a second cam are disposed on the drive shaft, and rotate together with the drive shaft. The first movable parts are disposed in the body and correspond to the first cam, and move to a disc hold position or a disc release position along with the rotation of the first cam. The second movable parts are disposed in the body and correspond to the second cam, and move to a disc release position or a disc hold position along with the rotation of the second cam.
US10008233B2
A conveying block 20 for conveying recording mediums between slots 15 and a drive block 16 is provided with a recording medium delivery block 50 for delivering the recording mediums to and from the slots 15 or the drive block 16, an extendable and retractable rail portion for moving the recording medium delivery block to a desired slot, and a control block 17 for controlling extension and retraction operation of the rail portion 31. The control block 17 determines whether the slots 15 are provided in an expansion area provided in an extending direction of the rail portion 31, and when the slots 15 are provided in the expansion area, the rail portion 31 is extended so that the recording medium delivery block 50 is moved to the desired slot in the expansion area. The recording mediums are efficiently stored for changer operation.
US10008228B1
In a storage device, data is written to tracks on a storage medium. Data for each track includes a preamble. The preamble in any current track is orthogonal to the preamble in any track adjacent to the current track. A first read head is positioned over the current track and off-center toward a first adjacent track on a first side of the current track to detect first signals from among the current track, the first adjacent track, and a second adjacent track on a second side of the current track. A second read head is positioned over the current track and off-center relative to the current track toward the second adjacent track to detect second signals from among the current track, the first adjacent track, and the second adjacent track. Analyzing the first and second signals determines an amount by which the read heads are off-track from the current track.
US10008221B2
An apparatus for magnetic recording having a barrier layer. One embodiment includes a magnetic head having an array of sensors, each of the sensors having a media facing surface. A barrier layer is positioned above at least the media facing surfaces of the sensors. The barrier layer includes at least one at least partially polycrystalline layer.
US10008220B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate; a lower base layer formed on the substrate; and a (001) oriented L10 magnetic layer formed on the lower base layer and including a first magnetic layer formed on the lower base layer and having a granular structure of magnetic grains and a grain boundary portion, the grain boundary portion containing C, and a second magnetic layer formed on the first magnetic layer and having a granular structure of magnetic grains and a grain boundary portion, the grain boundary portion containing oxide or nitride, the second magnetic layer further containing one or more elements selected from a group consisting of Mg, Ni, Zn, Ge, Pd, Sn, Ag, Re, Au and Pb as an additive.
US10008214B2
Disclosed is a unified speech and audio coding (USAC) audio signal encoding/decoding apparatus and method for digital radio services. An audio signal encoding method may include receiving an audio signal, determining a coding method for the received audio signal, encoding the audio signal based on the determined coding method, and configuring, as an audio superframe of a fixed size, an audio stream generated as a result of encoding the audio signal, wherein the coding method may include a first coding method associated with extended high-efficiency advanced audio coding (xHE-AAC) and a second coding method associated with existing advanced audio coding (AAC).
US10008201B2
A system and method of performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) includes: receiving speech at a vehicle microphone; communicating the received speech to an ASR system; measuring an amount of time that elapses while speech is received; selecting a point-of-interest (POI) context or an address context based on the measured amount of received time; and processing the received speech using a POI context-based grammar when a POI context is selected or an address-based grammar when an address context is selected.
US10008193B1
A singing voice conversion system configured to generate a song in the voice of a target singer based on a song in the voice of a source singer is disclosed. The embodiment utilizes two complementary approaches to voice timbre conversion. Both combine the natural prosody of a source singer with the pitch of the target singer—typically the user of the system—to achieve realistic sounding synthetic singing. The system is able to transpose the key of any song to match the automatically determined or desired pitch range of the target singer, thus allowing the system to generalize to any target singer, irrespective of their gender, natural pitch range, and the original pitch range of the song to be sung.
US10008186B2
In accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, a capo configured for use with a stringed instrument includes a frame, a mounting member, and a plurality of individually selectable toggle members. The mounting member is connected to the frame and configured to secure the frame to the musical instrument. The plurality of individually selectable toggle members are retained by the frame. A plurality of feet are provided on the toggle members, and the feet have differing widths.
US10008184B2
The invention includes a method including the steps of obtaining a plurality of images, each of the images in the plurality having at least one corresponding region, generating a merged image, the merged image also having the corresponding region. The step of generating includes selecting an image source from the plurality of images to source image data for the corresponding region in the merged image by comparing attributes of the corresponding regions of the plurality of images to identify the image source having preferred attributes.
US10008176B2
Display driver integrated circuit (IC), method of operating the same, and devices including the same
A display driver integrated circuit (IC) (DDI) includes a graphic memory that receives and stores line data including a plurality of pixel data blocks, an indicator generating circuit that compares the pixel data blocks of the line data received by the graphic memory with each other and generates an indicator signal corresponding to results of the comparison, and a read controller that performs a read operation with respect to the whole or a part of the line data from the graphic memory, based on a read command for the line data and the indicator signal.
US10008173B2
A liquid crystal display device capable of being grounded to avoid afterimages includes a liquid crystal panel, a time controller, a gate driver, a data driver, a common voltage generating circuit, and a discharging circuit. The liquid crystal panel includes a plurality of pixel electrodes and a plurality of common electrodes. The pixel electrodes and common electrodes cooperate with each other to form a liquid crystal capacitor. In a power off process, the discharging circuit of the display controls the gate driver to stop generating grayscale voltages and grounds the common voltage generating circuit to discharge the liquid crystal capacitor.
US10008164B2
Optical systems are described that include a switchable diffuser, a display panel, a lighting component and a diffuser controller. The diffuser controller is configured to switch the state of the switchable diffuser when the diffuser controller determines that the diffuser state is to be changed. The diffuser controller may be configured to vary an output level of the display panel in association with a change in state of the switchable diffuser. The optical system may also include a switching device which may be separable from the display panel.
US10008160B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus is provided. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a graphene LED backlight source, a first polarizing film, a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate and a second polarizing film. The graphene LED backlight source is used for providing light output, the first polarizing film is used for converting the light output from the backlight source into a polarized light. The liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules used for deflecting the polarized light from the backlight source to form a polarized output light, and the second polarizing film is used for emitting the polarized output light.
US10008154B2
The present invention provides a gate driving circuit and an OLED display device. The gate driving circuit comprises multiple stages of shift registers, each stage of shift register is connected to an inverter and provides a first signal and a second signal for the inverter; the inverter receives the first signal and the second signal and generates a light emitting signal according to the first signal and the second signal and input the light emitting signal to the light emitting device; the inverter comprises at least two current amplification units and an external pull-down unit; each current amplification unit comprises a pull-up module, a pull-up hold module, an internal pull-down module and a driving transistor. According to the present invention, the number of transistors can be reduced, the aperture ratio of the display device is improved, and output with high voltage and large current can be provided.
US10008151B2
A display unit includes: a unit pixel; a switch configured to perform ON-OFF control between a second terminal and a third terminal, based on a pulse signal applied to a first terminal, the second terminal being supplied with a DC signal, and the third terminal being connected to the unit pixel; and a non-linear element interposed between the first terminal and the third terminal.
US10008150B2
A light-emitting device comprising an emitting unit including at least two emitting elements, a driving unit configured to control the emitting unit, and a capacitor unit formed over the driving unit. A shield layer may be located between the two emitting elements. In one example, the capacitor unit is formed at a level higher than a level of the driving unit, and a shield layer that is located between the two emitting elements is formed at a level that is higher than the level of the driving unit and equal to or lower than the level of the capacitor unit.
US10008145B2
Systems and methods are provided to perform refresh-rate dependent dithering. One embodiment describes a computing device that includes an image source that generates spatially dithered image data and an electronic display communicatively coupled to the image source. More specifically, the electronic display receives the spatially dithered image data from the image source and determines a refresh rate with which to display an image by comparing a local histogram and an artifact histogram, in which the local histogram describes pixel grayscale distribution of a portion of the image and the artifact histogram describes a pixel grayscale distribution that when displayed will cause a perceivable artifact. Additionally, when the determined refresh rate is less than a threshold refresh rate of the electronic device, the electronic display spatially dithers the image data without temporally dithering the image data and displays the image based at least in part on the spatially dithered image data.
US10008144B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a memory, a bit-data convertor, a switch, and a gate driver. The display panel includes pixels. Each pixel is connected to one of the data lines and one of the gate lines. The memory stores a plurality of image data corresponding to a frame period. The bit-data convertor determines a plurality of bit data. Each of the bit data corresponds to a degree of change between adjacent image data among the plurality of image data, obtains a sum of the bit data, and outputs the sum of the bit data as a total count bit data value. The switch outputs a first pulse control signal corresponding to the total count bit data value. The gate driver generates a gate signal based on the first pulse control signal, and to output the gate signal to one of the gate lines.
US10008140B2
A bright dot detection method adapted to be used in a display panel including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines and a bright dot detection module. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of sources line are interlaced thereby forming a plurality of pixels. The bright dot detection method includes: driving the plurality of pixels through enabling the plurality of gate lines simultaneously, thereby forming a first bright line in a first direction; and driving the plurality of pixels through enabling the plurality of gate lines sequentially and providing a control signal to the bright dot detection module, thereby forming a second bright line in a second direction, wherein a bright dot is positioned where the first and second bright lines meet with each other. A display panel is also disclosed.
US10008138B2
Self-erectable displays and methods of making such self-erectable displays are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a shroud including a first shroud panel, a second shroud panel coupled to the first shroud panel, and an interior formed between the first shroud panel and the second shroud panel; a support disposed in the interior of the shroud, the support including a first tongue and a second tongue, the first tongue to extend through a first aperture of the support, the second tongue to extend through a second aperture of the support, the first and second tongues to extend in opposing directions; and a biasing member coupled to the support to cause a portion of the first shroud panel to separate from a portion of the second shroud panel.
US10008136B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus including: a first pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying three primary colors respectively; and a second pixel including three sub-pixels for displaying two colors selected among the three primary colors and a predetermined color other than the three primary colors, wherein, in the first pixel, the size of the display surface of a sub-pixel for displaying a specific color included in the three primary colors as a specific color missing from the second pixel is larger than each of the sizes of the display surfaces of the two other sub-pixels for displaying the two other primary colors respectively.
US10008134B2
A sign system and method for temporarily displaying signs. The sign system includes a mounting assembly, a pole and a sign. The mounting assembly is installed in the ground; the pole is engaged with the mounting assembly and the sign is engaged with the pole. The mounting assembly includes a flange with upper and lower surfaces; a base engaged with the upper surface and extending outwardly therefrom in a first direction; and a screw engaged with the lower surface of the flange and extending outwardly therefrom in a second direction. The flange is oriented at right angles to a longitudinal axis of the screw. When the screw is rotated into the ground the flange contacts the ground surface and limits the depth to which the screw may rotate. Additionally, the screw may be of a preset length to additionally control the depth of penetration of the screw into the ground.
US10008133B2
A label sheet assembly including a liner sheet, a carrier sheet, and a facestock sheet. The facestock sheet includes cut lines defining labels and cut lines defining at least a portion of a carrier strip. The carrier sheet can include cut lines defining at least a portion of the carrier strip. The carrier strip can be removed from the label sheet assembly to expose at least a portion of a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on the labels. The label sheet assembly has a uniform thickness in an area that includes the carrier strip and the labels.
US10008132B2
A method and apparatus for embedding a data message in a carrier object using steganography. The method provides a secret key and determines an indicator channel from a plurality of color channels in the carrier object, wherein the indicator channel is the color channel in the carrier object that has a maximum number of different pixel values in the carrier object. The method generates a sorted indicator channel value array based on the channel values and the frequency of occurrence of each value of the indicator channel in the carrier object. For each indicator channel value in the sorted indicator channel value array, the method iterates through the carrier object to determine the pixel in the carrier object whose indicator channel value is the same as the current indicator channel value in the sorted indicator channel value array. For pixels in the carrier object whose indicator channel value is the same as the current indicator channel value, and based on the value of a portion of the secret key, the method embeds a first portion of the data message into a first color channel other than the indicator color channel and embeds a second portion of the data message into a second color channel other than the indicator color channel and other than the first color channel. The method repeats the iteration and embedding until all of the data message is embedded into the carrier object, thereby generating a stego image.
US10008128B1
A method and system for assisting communication. The method includes receiving a message in a first communication medium from a first device of a first user. The message has one or more recipients. The method further includes determining whether at least one recipient of the one or more recipients is in a predefined category by referencing a stored look-up table, monitoring, via one or more sensors, surroundings of the at least one recipient when the at least one recipient is in the predefined category, detecting whether there is a hazard based on the monitoring, and determining whether the first communication medium corresponds to a preferable communication medium based on the predefined category of the at least one recipient. Further, the method includes converting the message to the preferable communication medium and delivering the converted message to at least one recipient device when a hazard is not detected.
US10008126B1
A training aid for an athletic movement comprises: an EMG acquisition device for placement on a muscle of a user. The training aid is configured to: identify an acquired set of EMG signals generated during the movement from muscles in two different appendages; divide the set of EMG signals into a sequence of smaller time intervals; compare the placement in the smaller time intervals of peak EMG signals in the acquired set of EMG signals to a reference criteria; identify whether the acquired EMG signals satisfy or does not satisfy the reference criteria during the movement. A set of movements are displayed, such that a displayed movement is matched to acquired EMG signals during one of the smaller time intervals, and the movements are displayed with an indication of which move or moves are wrong based on whether the EMG signals matched with the movement, satisfies the reference criteria.
US10008123B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a digital flight path within complex mission boundaries. In particular, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods generate flight legs that traverse a target site within mission boundaries. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that utilize linking algorithms to connect the generated flight legs into a flight path. Moreover, one or more embodiments include systems and methods that generate a mission plan based on the flight path. In one or more embodiments, the generated mission plan enables a UAV to traverse a flight area within mission boundaries and capture aerial images with regard to the target site. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, systems and methods capture digital aerial images of vertical surfaces of a structure by generating a reference surface and flight legs corresponding to the reference surface.
US10008117B1
A master-slave compatible PDC system, comprising a master sensor, at least one slave sensor, which comprises an ultrasonic IC, a boost drive module, and a second ultrasonic transducer; the CPU module drives the first ultrasonic transducer via the master drive module, the first ultrasonic transducer amplifies and transmits echoed signals to a A/D conversion module of the CPU module via a master amplifier module, the CPU module drives the ultrasonic IC of the corresponding slave sensor via a slave drive module, the ultrasonic IC drives the second ultrasonic transducer via the boost drive module, and the second ultrasonic transducer feeds back the echoed signal to the A/D conversion module of the CPU module via the ultrasonic IC. In the Invention, the ultrasonic IC is employed for each slave sensor, enabling a farther detection distance and stronger anti-interference capability of the whole system.
US10008114B2
A vehicle searching system and a method for searching a vehicle are provided. The vehicle searching system includes a vehicle electronic device, a data storage device and a mobile device. The vehicle electronic device captures images along a moving direction of the vehicle, and provides a positioning information of the vehicle and determines whether the vehicle sends a parking stall signal. The data storage device stores data. The mobile device communicates with the data storage device. The vehicle electronic device receives the parking stall signal to select a parking image from the images and obtain positioning information of the vehicle, and transmits the parking image and the positioning information to the data storage device. The mobile device obtains the parking image and the positioning information from the data storage device, and displays the parking image and presents the positioning information in a graphical interface.
US10008109B2
A method for training a programmable transceiver is provided that includes scanning frequencies within a desired range for a first signal, and detecting the first signal at a first frequency. The method also includes computing harmonic frequencies and subharmonic frequencies of the first frequency, and scanning the harmonic frequencies and the subharmonic frequencies for a second signal at a second frequency. The method further includes comparing a first magnitude of the first signal to a second magnitude of the second signal. In addition, the method includes training the programmable transceiver based on the second signal if the second magnitude is greater than the first magnitude, otherwise training the programmable transceiver based on the first signal.
US10008108B2
A method for controlling a home network system using a mobile terminal is provided, which includes the mobile terminal connecting to a gateway of a home network through a communication network, the mobile terminal receiving a list of devices which are connected to the home network from the gateway of the home network, the mobile terminal displaying the devices connected to the home network, if one of the displayed devices is selected, requesting the status information of the selected device from the selected device status information of the selected device through the gateway, receiving the status information of the selected device from the selected device, and displaying the received status information and a user interface for controlling the selected device.
US10008107B2
A method and surveillance system are presented for detecting and alarming intrusions that are caused by unwanted people in a protected area, by exploiting interactions between the wireless communication and monitoring devices of the surveillance system but no special sensors. An intrusion in the protected area is primarily detected by analyzing the variation of the wireless channel observed at the wireless communication device, and further confirmed by images captured by the monitoring device, where the image capture can be triggered by the intrusion detection result. The threshold used to primarily determine the existence of an intrusion is self-calibrated by comparing the result of the channel-variation based intrusion detection with the findings of the captured images. Moreover, an intrusion caused by authorized people of the protected area is identified through checking the connection status of the secured wireless communication network in the protected area, and then filtered out.
US10008096B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a light curtain protection system having a passive optical module arranged to receive, from an active optical module, a light signal such that a reflector reflects, through a polarization control module, the light signal to be received by a receiver in the active optical module. In an illustrative example, the polarization control module includes a half-wave plate aligned with the reflector to impart a first predetermined polarization to the reflected light signal such that the reflected light signal corresponds to a second predetermined polarization when received by the receiver. The polarization control module includes optical elements, such as, for example, a linear polarizer, to receive the reflected light such that the optical elements polarizes the received reflected light signal to correspond to a predetermined polarization. In some examples, the light curtain protection system may advantageously require operating power only for the active optical module.
US10008094B2
An electric meter apparatus with a light-blinking function includes a positive-side probe, a negative-side probe, a resistor measuring circuit, a voltage supply unit, a micro control unit and a light-blinking indication unit. The resistor measuring circuit is configured to measure an external resistor to obtain a resistance value of the external resistor through the positive-side probe and the negative-side probe. The resistor measuring circuit is configured to inform the micro control unit of the resistance value of the external resistor. If the resistance value of the external resistor is less than or equal to a predetermined value, the micro control unit is configured to control the light-blinking indication unit to light, to be turned off or to light blinkingly, in order to remind the user.
US10008092B2
Disclosed are a method, apparatus, and storage medium for alerting a cooking state of an electric cooker. The method includes: detecting a current cooking state of an electric cooker; generating cooking state alert information when a preset cooking state is detected; and sending the cooking state alert information to a target terminal for alerting a user to the current cooking state of the electric cooker.
US10008087B2
A proximity based ad-hoc messaging, alerting, and tracking system can be employed to quickly and efficiently propagate alerts when a child or other individual becomes lost. Various types of alerts can be provided to facilitate locating a lost individual even in scenarios where a network connection or GPS is not available. The system can also be employed to track the presence of an individual after traveling in a vehicle to enable detecting when the individual has been separated from all guardians such as would be the case when the individual is left in the vehicle.
US10008086B2
An apparatus and method are described for an IoT security system. For example, one embodiment of the IoT security system comprises: one or more attachable security devices, each comprising an IoT device to establish local wireless connections with one or more IoT hubs within a location, each attachable security device to be attached to a child registered with the security system and comprising a switch to trigger upon detachment of the attachable security device from the child; a plurality of kiosks, each kiosk comprising: a monitor to provide instructions to parents for registering and de-registering children with the security system; an input device to receive input from the parents during a registration process and a de-registration process to register and de-register the children, respectively; a camera to capture a photo of a child to be registered with the security system; an IoT hub to establish a first set of local wireless communication channels with the IoT devices of the security bracelets, the IoT hub to further provide connectivity among each of the kiosks through a second set of one or more communication channels; the IoT hub to associate the photo of the child with an IoT device of a security bracelet provided to the child, the association being stored in one or more of the kiosks or in a network service; an IoT device of an attachable security device to transmit a first alarm to a first kiosk responsive to the switch triggering upon detachment of the attachable security device; the first kiosk to communicate the first alarm with other kiosks and the plurality of kiosks to display the photo.
US10008085B1
A monitoring system is provided for monitoring a user's premises. The system comprises a monitoring device that comprises at least one sensor configured to enable determining occurrence of one or more pre-defined events, wherein the monitoring device is characterized in that it is configured to automatically guide itself to move within the user's premises, and in addition the system comprises a docking station for the monitoring device.
US10008074B2
A method for authenticating instant lottery tickets in a web-based program that links secondary activities to the tickets includes providing each lottery ticket with a validation code that links the lottery ticket to an electronic validation file in a database that contains a predetermined outcome and status of the lottery. Each lottery ticket is provided with a registration code separate from the validation code, wherein a player uses the registration code to register the lottery ticket in the web-based program. The registration code is an encrypted form of the validation code for each ticket. With a server and upon receipt of the registration code, the registration code is decrypted to determine the validation code. The validation file associated with the decrypted registration code is accessed and, from the validation file, the authenticity and status of the lottery ticket required for a valid entry into the web-based program is determined.
US10008073B2
An electronic method of gaming comprises an electronic game controller forming a first game outcome by selecting a plurality of symbols for display at respective ones of a plurality of symbol display positions of a symbol display, evaluating the first game outcome to determine whether the symbol display includes a designated winning symbol combination, upon the displayed symbols including a designated winning symbol combination, a) making an award in respect of the designated winning symbol combination and b) removing symbols of the designated winning symbol combination and at least one further, non-winning symbol from the symbol display, forming a second game outcome at least from remaining symbols of the first game outcome, and evaluating the second game outcome to determine whether to make an award.
US10008068B2
A modular outdoor large item vending system for large items such as propane tanks, liquid petroleum gas cylinders of various sizes and other items that must be stored in and dispensed from a hazardous location compliant system. The vending system can be placed on a store front, parking lot, campsite, or park, and comprises a master module assembly connected to a plurality of add-on module assemblies with each of the master module assembly and the add-on module assemblies having compartments to hold large items which are dispensed from the compartments when a payment is made through a credit card reader interface located on a master module control compartment door face. The large item vending system of the invention is powered by AC current which is turned to DC power by a power supply, or DC batteries charged by AC power and/or solar power, or by other power means.
US10008062B2
A long-range power-efficient multiple-band identification system and method includes, for example, a base-station control module and paired electronic key fob. The base-station control module and paired electronic key fob is arranged to provide a UHF (ultra-high frequency) wake transmitter for transmitting a wakeup signal in a UHF frequency range to the paired electronic key. When in range, the electronic key is awakened by the wakeup signal and in response transmits an acknowledgment reply to the base-station control module. After receiving the acknowledgment, the base-station control module transmits a relatively high power localization signal for determining an electronic key location.
US10008059B2
An access control reader includes a housing with a base having a main wall for securing to a support and at least one front part mounted on the base. Each front part includes a front wall opposite the main wall of the base in a closed configuration of the housing. The access control reader further includes an electronic board incorporating at least one controller, a memory and a main access-control device, the controller driving the main access-control device by implementing a first drive algorithm loaded in the memory. The housing includes a component for securing a complementary access-control module and component for passing a connection cable between the module and a connector mounted on the electronic board. The electronic board memory is loaded with a second drive algorithm for driving the module such that the controller drives the module once the connection cable has been connected to the connector.
US10008044B2
Embodiments are disclosed that relate to operating a user interface on an augmented reality computing device comprising a display system. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes displaying a virtual object via the display system as free-floating, detecting a trigger to display the object as attached to a surface, and, in response to the trigger, displaying the virtual object as attached to the surface via the display system. The method may further include detecting a trigger to detach the virtual object from the surface and, in response to the trigger to detach the virtual object from the surface, detaching the virtual object from the surface and displaying the virtual object as free-floating.
US10008043B2
In embodiments of the invention, an apparatus may include a display comprising a plurality of pixels and a computer system coupled with the display and operable to instruct the display to display images. The apparatus may further include an SLM array located adjacent to the display and comprising a plurality of SLMs, wherein the SLM array is operable to produce a light field by altering light emitted by the display to simulate an object that is in focus to an observer while the display and the SLM array are located within a near-eye range of the observer.
US10008038B2
A method of displaying augmented reality comprises identifying an object as a totem having at least one user input element, capturing at least one image of an interaction of at least one finger of a user of an augmented reality system with the at least one user input element of the totem, detecting at least one characteristic pertaining to the interaction of the finger(s) of the user with the user input element(s) of the totem based on the capture image(s), and determining a user input based at least in part on the at least one determined characteristic.
US10008037B1
An augmented reality environment allows interaction between virtual and real objects. By monitoring user actions with the augmented reality environment various functions are provided to users. Users may buy or sell items with a gesture, check inventory of objects in the augmented reality environment, view advertisements, and so forth.
US10008036B2
In a system for facilitating mesh generation corresponding to a volumetric, prismatic object, generalized polyhedrons representing at least a portion of a layer of the volumetric object are transformed into a set of convex polyhedrons based on, at least in part, the prismatic properties of the volumetric object. The convex polyhedrons corresponding to a layer are decomposed into a set of tetrahedrons by accounting for an intersecting and/or overlapping edge of a polyhedron in an adjacent layer, so that the set of tetrahedrons automatically, i.e., without having to enforce any continuity requirements after tetrahedron generation, forms a mesh of that is continuous with tetrahedrons corresponding to the adjacent layer.
US10008035B1
A technique for generating virtual models of plants in a field is described. Generally, this includes recording images of plants in-situ; generating point clouds from the images; generating skeleton segments from the point cloud; classifying a subset of skeleton segments as unique plant features using the images; and growing plant skeletons from skeleton segments classified as unique plant feature. The technique may be used to generate a virtual model of a single, real plant, a portion of a real plant field, and/or the entirety of the real plant field. The virtual model can be analyzed to determine or estimate a variety of individual plant or plant population parameters, which in turn can be used to identify potential treatments or thinning practices, or predict future values for yield, plant uniformity, or any other parameter can be determined from the projected results based on the virtual model.
US10008034B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for computing indirect lighting in a cloud network. In operation, one or more scenes for rendering are identified. Further, indirect lighting associated with the one or more scenes is identified. Additionally, computation associated with the indirect lighting is performed in a cloud network utilizing at least one of a voxel-based algorithm, a photon-based algorithm, or an irradiance-map-based algorithm.
US10008030B2
A panel image that may be displayed in a display apparatus to display a 3D image that includes reduced differences with a source image may be generated based on generating a predicted 3D image based on a panel image, comparing the predicted 3D image to the source image, and adjusting the panel image to reduce differences between the predicted 3D image and the source image. Such a process may be performed iteratively. The predicted 3D image may be generated based on applying a convolution kernel to the panel image in a convolution operation. The convolution kernel may be based on a first function and a second function. The first function may be associated with a brightness distribution of one or more visual fields of the panel image. The second function may be associated with a Gaussian distribution of brightness of a panel image pixel.
US10008029B2
Updating depth related graphics data is described. Geometric primitives are processed. Pixels are generated from the primitives based on the processing, each of which has at least one corresponding depth value. Culling is performed on a first group of the pixels, based on a representation of the at least one depth related value corresponding to each. Pixels may be discarded based on the culling and upon which a second group of pixels remain. A depth related raster operations function is performed, in which data is transacted with a depth buffer. The culling function is updated in relation to the transacting. The updating is performed on the basis of a granularity, which characterizes the culling function.
US10008023B2
A method and a device for texture filtering include determining an upper mipmap and a lower mipmap based on a level of detail (LOD) value corresponding to a quad, obtaining first color values corresponding to the upper mipmap, obtaining second color values corresponding to the lower mipmap, and obtaining third color values of the pixels of the quad by using linear interpolation, based on the obtained first and second color values.
US10008021B2
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering imagery that compensates for parallax. Image data may comprise a sequence of images of a location, collected at known intervals (e.g., distances), such as along a path. The image data can comprise a first layer comprising a first depth, and a second layer comprising a second depth, that is different from the first depth. The image data can be composed into resulting imagery, where the first layer is composed at the first depth and the second layer is composed at the second depth. The resulting imagery can be rendered to compensate for, or rather make use of, parallax, such that the first layer is rendered at a first movement speed, based at least upon the first depth, and the second layer is rendered at a second movement speed, based at least upon the second depth.
US10008016B2
In one embodiment, a method includes adjusting the images or text rendered on a display based on the position of the viewers relative to the display.
US10008011B1
A method of creating watercolor images from a source image may include some or all of: scaling down and lightening the source image; converting the lightened image to a single channel grayscale image; blending a noise pattern with the lightened image to add random jitter; overlaying an edge detection map to produce an edge buffered control image; determining a main set of colors in the source image; determining boundaries for each region where the main set of colors appear; coloring in multiple passes using one color at a time, with a diffusion of water technique emulating wet-on-wet watercoloring; coloring each of the main set of colors, by coloring from a light to dark order; enhancing the edges of the regions to model the areas where a water-color artist would maintain separation; and compositing to add sedimentation texture; flocculation texture; a drawing layer; and a paper texture pattern.
US10008002B2
Systems and methods for estimating distances to objects or features are described. The distance estimation tracks features across images captured from a single camera mounted to an automobile and determines features that are off-ground. Features are tracked based on a ground motion estimate and respective motion of the features tracked across two or more successive images. For each off-ground feature a distance to the camera is calculated based on motion of the feature in the images captured by the camera projected to a ground-plane and the ground motion estimate.
US10007999B2
Techniques for estimating direct and diffuse sunlight reaching a location as a function of time using color whole sky images are provided. In one aspect, a method for forecasting solar insolation is provided that includes the steps of: obtaining color whole sky images using a digital camera which are taken at different times, and wherein an image of a solar disk is present in at least one of the color whole sky images; creating sky transparency images from the color whole sky images; determining atmospheric solar scattering based on a width of the solar disk in the color whole sky images; determining cloud motion trajectories from a time series of the sky transparency images; and calculating the solar insolation as a function of time using the sky transparency, the atmospheric solar scattering, and the cloud motion trajectories. A system for forecasting solar insolation is also provided.
US10007984B2
A method of quantifying a medical image is disclosed herein. The method of quantifying a medical image includes acquiring regions of interest based on a medical image; filtering the sizes of the acquired regions of interest using length scale analysis; classifying the regions of interest whose sizes have been filtered, according to the sizes of the regions of interest; and visualizing the regions of interest whose sizes have been filtered, so that the regions of interest whose sizes have been filtered are distinguished from each other in the medical image according to the sizes of the regions of interest.
US10007978B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for processing an image of an upper garment, helpful to improve a user's experience during virtual fitting. The method for processing an image of an upper garment in the present invention comprises setting a collar image having an upper edge, a connecting line of two endpoints of which is in the horizontal direction, the distance between the two endpoints being equal to the distance between two end portions at a notch on a rear collar in a picture of upper garment without the rear collar, and the upper edge being in left-right axial symmetry and is convex or concave at a preset height or depth, overlaying the image of the upper garment without the rear collar on an upper layer of the neckline image, and superposing the two ends of the collar with the two endpoints of the upper edge.
US10007973B2
An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor operatively coupled to a memory, serving as an obtaining unit configured to obtain a contrast material-enhanced image of an object, a first region extraction unit configured to extract a first region representing a first anatomical portion of the object from the image, an estimation unit configured to estimate a state of the image concerning a temporal change in gray level from the first region, and a second region extraction unit configured to extract a second region representing a second anatomical portion of the object from the image based on an estimation result obtained by the estimation unit.
US10007966B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to create, process, and/or modify images are provided. Recipient image data associated with an original image captured by a second computing system can be received by a first computing system. A first intermediate image may be generated based on the recipient image data. A first viewable image for display on the first computing system may be generated based on the first intermediate image.
US10007965B2
Techniques to patch a shader program after the shader has been compiled and/or while the shader is in an execution pipeline are described. The shader may be patched based on references to global constants in a global constant buffer. For example, the reference to the global constant buffer may be patched with the value of the global constant, conditional statements based on references to the global constant buffer may be replaced with unconditional statements based on the value of the global constant in the global constant buffer, to optimize the shader or increase computational efficiency of the shader.
US10007953B1
In some examples, a service provider may provide a payroll service and a payment processing service to businesses. For instance, with authorization from the employer, the service provider may withhold a percentage of funds received as sales revenue through the payment service. For example, the service provider may withhold a percentage of sales revenue each day to be used to pay at least a portion of the payroll payments paid to employees of the employer. Alternatively, the service provider may determine an amount of payroll payments currently due to be paid on a given day, and may deduct at least a portion of this amount from the sales revenue of the employer for that day. As another alternative, the service provider may make payroll payments in advance, and may withhold a percentage of the employer's daily sales revenue until the cash advance is paid back.
US10007952B1
Apparatus and methods to process vehicle or driver behavior data are described herein. In some examples, the behavior data is used by a premium calculating engine to derive a premium for a vehicle insurance policy using the data. The behavior data may be associated with a single driver, or may be associated with all drivers of a vehicle without regard to the actual drivers, in some examples. Data received from the vehicle may also include vehicle performance data, in further examples. Additionally, a method of underwriting a dynamic vehicle insurance policy is described, in one example.
US10007949B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution.
US10007945B2
Techniques for keyword-based searching are described. Some embodiments provide a Merchant Information Search System (“MISS”) that allows a potential customer to search for information about proximately located merchants that provide goods and/or services that match one or more keywords provided by the customer. In some embodiments, multiple keywords are associated with individual goods and/or services provided by a merchant. By associating keywords with individual goods and/or services, rather than a category or type of goods, the MISS may provide fine-grained search results that identify merchants that would not have been otherwise identified by category-based approaches to searching. Some embodiments employ other or additional techniques, including proximity-based searching and keyword feedback to improve search performance.
US10007943B2
A processor-based system stores different card templates in a database. Each card template has a card feature that can have any color from among a first set of colors. The system also stores, in the database, for each stored card templates, a corresponding envelope template. Each envelope template has an envelope feature that can have any color from among a second set of colors. The system receives a user selection of a card template from among the card templates and a user selection of a color to be applied to the card feature. The system displays the card template, with the card feature having the user-selected color. The system also displays the corresponding envelope template that corresponds, in the database, to the selected card template. The envelope feature is displayed with the user-selected color based on the user-selected color having been selected for the card feature.
US10007941B1
A device is provided to receive, from a first device, a request for a product or service, determine a first geographic location of the first device, and identify a second device that is located in a geographic region associated with the first geographic location. The second device may be associated with a user that is capable of providing the product or service. The device may provide, to the first device, information regarding a second geographic location of the second device. The information may specify an obfuscated second geographic location without revealing the second geographic location. The device may also receive, from the first device, an instruction to provide the request to the second device, provide the request to the second device, receive an acceptance of the request from the second device, and provide, to the second device, data indicating the first geographic location of the first device.
US10007940B2
Methods for purchasing of goods or services over the internet. A customer has a customer account set up at a bank with associated account information. The account information includes verification information for verification parameters, such as authorized computer identification, authorized delivery addresses, authorized user identification, authorized telephone caller identification, and/or other account information. An order is placed by a user via an ordering computer which provides order information. Such order information includes verification variables used by the bank. Verification and/or authentication using one or more variables of the customer account information is used by the bank to validate the order before assuring payment to the merchant.
US10007937B1
A service provider may collect information about items offered by merchants and prices for the items. The service provider may use the collected information to determine whether to recruit the merchant to join an electronic marketplace to offer one or more items for consumption. The service provider may receive the information from customer submissions, from monitoring payment processing data accessible to the service provider, or both. The service provider may collect various pieces of information about the seller and/or items offered by the seller. The collected information may include contact information of the seller, location information of the seller, a price of the item, an inventory or availability of the item, special options, and so forth, which may differentiate the seller and/or the item from other available sellers and items accessible through the electronic marketplace.
US10007936B1
Methods and systems are provided for managing product reviews for users based on their social data, wherein the social data may comprise data associated with or inferred from the users' social connections.
US10007934B2
A system and method for cosmetic evaluation of an electronic device, using the device's own camera or cameras to take photos of the device itself using a mirror or mirrors and using the processor of the electronic device itself to analyze its own cosmetic condition.
US10007929B1
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for light-based communication. One representative embodiment involves a messaging system that includes multiple messaging units at different locations within a commercial space, with each of such messaging units including: a light-emitting diode (LED); and a messaging/modulation controller coupled to the LED and configured to turn the LED on and off so as to broadcast a digital message, with each of the messaging units configured to broadcast a different digital message, including substantive content that is different from what is broadcast by the other messaging units.
US10007927B2
A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, a model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users.
US10007924B2
A method for providing a service through a stamp service server, includes: receiving user information and beacon information from a user terminal, wherein the user terminal recognizes a beacon signal output from a beacon device and transmits the beacon information contained in the beacon signal; extracting stamp information matching the received user information on a stored database; providing the extracted stamp information to a POS (Point Of Sale) corresponding to the beacon information; receiving stamp saving information or stamp use information from the POS terminal; and generating or updating stamp information matching the user information included in the stamp saving information or the stamp use information.
US10007921B2
In selected embodiments, one or more wearable mobile devices provide videos and other sensor data of one or more participants in an interaction, such as a customer service or a sales interaction between a company employee and a customer. A computerized system uses machine learning expression classifiers, temporal filters, and a machine learning function approximator to estimate the quality of the interaction. The computerized system may include a recommendation selector configured to select suggestions for improving the current interaction and/or future interactions, based on the quality estimates and the weights of the machine learning approximator.
US10007919B2
A method for managing customer interactions includes: receiving first proximity information relating to a proximity between an electronic communication device carried by a customer and a first proximity device located in a first location of a physical establishment associated with a customer contact center; creating an interaction object including data corresponding to the first proximity information; receiving, by the processor, second proximity information relating to a proximity between the electronic communication device and a second proximity device located in a second location; modifying the interaction object to include data corresponding to the second proximity information; storing the interaction object in a first data storage device, wherein data of contact center interactions between the customer and resources of the customer contact center is also stored; and retrieving the stored data of the interaction object and the data of contact center interactions for generating an output based on the retrieved data.
US10007913B2
Logic on a first remote device causes the capture of personal data identifying a user from an identification card. The logic generates a hash value from the personal data using a hashing algorithm and signs the hash value with a digital signature created using a private key paired with a public key. The logic transmits, over a network, the signed hash value and the public key from the remote device to a distributed public database for storage. The logic receives, over the network, a transaction number from the distributed public database. The logic then transmits the transaction number and the personal data to a second remote device. Logic on the second remote device verifies that the hash value in the signed hash value is the same as a generated hash value and verifies that the signed hash value was signed with the private key.
US10007909B2
A method for receiving and processing a data message includes: storing at least an encryption key; receiving a data message, the data message including at an encrypted message and a message authentication code, the message authentication code generated using at least a portion of the encrypted message; generating a reference authentication code using at least a portion of the encrypted message included in the received data message; validating the received data message based on a check of the message authentication code included in the received data message against the generated reference authentication code; and decrypting the encrypted message included in the received data message using the stored encryption key to obtain a decrypted message.
US10007902B2
In one aspect, the present application is directed to a communications network, a computer system, a computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for providing a femtocell-based infrastructure for mobile electronic payment. In an aspect, the communications network may include a mobile operator network; a local area in the mobile operator network, wherein the local area is under coverage of at least one femtocell; and a femtocell-based payment system connected to the mobile operator network, wherein the femtocell-based payment system is operable to provide mobile electronic payment via a user device recognized by the at least one femtocell within the local area and notified by the femtocell-based payment system.
US10007894B2
A computer processor may extract identity information from a document. The identity information may include at least one custodian identity attribute. After extracting the identity information, the computer processor may determine that the identity information is associated with a specific custodian. The computer processor may then search for the custodian identity attribute in a custodian directory to determine whether the custodian directory contains an entry for the custodian. If the custodian is not in the custodian directory, the computer processor may create a new entry in the custodian directory for the custodian and store the extracted identity information in the new entry.
US10007893B2
Systems and methods for creating and editing collaborative music compositions via a computer network, including remote uploading tracks by musicians, and for creating and joining a band, wherein the system and methods provide for at least one musician to join a virtual group of at least one other musician for the purpose of virtual collaborative creating and/or editing music tracks remotely, via an online network and interactive website therefor.
US10007890B1
The disclosed inventory systems and methods can be used to retrieve and transport items from one location in an inventory system to another. Specifically, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including passive buoyancy element, a thrust unit, and a retention feature, can be controlled by a management component to retrieve one or more items, transport the item or items, and deposit the item or items. For example, a UAV can be controlled to obtain an item at one location in a warehouse such as a first floor and lift said item to a second location in the warehouse such as a second floor, and deposit the item at the second location.
US10007889B2
A method, system, and computer program product for enterprise software application modules for order consolidation management. The method commences by receiving a set of orders where individual orders have one or more order constraints, then mapping the orders onto one or more transportation legs, where the individual transportation legs have leg constraints. A set of feasible paths through the legs for the orders is generated and ranked based on a total cost through the legs to pick-up an order from a source location and deliver it to a destination location. The method continues by determining a set of shortest paths through a transportation network for the set of orders, wherein the determination of any one of the shortest paths is made subject to honoring respective order constraints while concurrently honoring the leg constraints. The orders are then remapped onto one of the shortest paths.
US10007887B2
A possible failure of a first device may be identified. Whether a user of the first device has a scheduled meeting to be held within a time range of the possible failure, may be determined by accessing calendar information. Responsive to determining that the user has the scheduled meeting to be held within the time range of the possible failure, at least one other participant of the scheduled meeting may be determined by accessing the calendar information, a contact address for said at least one other participant may be determined, and information may be transferred to the at least one other participant via the contact address.
US10007876B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for processing a network input through a neural network having one or more initial neural network layers followed by a softmax output layer. In one aspect, the methods include obtaining a layer output generated by the one or more initial neural network layers and processing the layer output through the softmax output layer to generate a neural network output. Processing the layer output through the softmax output layer includes determining, for each possible output value, a number of occurrences in the layer output values; for each possible output value occurring in the layer output values, determining a respective exponentiation measure; determining a normalization factor for the layer output by combining the exponentiation measures in accordance with the number of occurrences of the possible output values; and determining, for each of layer output values, a softmax probability value.
US10007874B1
An attachment for a clamping bolt has a base body and an opening which passes through the base body. Around the through-going opening runs a contact face which is positioned orthogonally on the longitudinal axis of the through-going opening and which is configured to make contact with the clamping bolt. A receptacle region runs around the through-going opening in the basic body, between the through-going opening and the contact face. An RFID transponder is arranged in the receptacle region. The clamping bolt has a circular-cylinder-shaped clamping region. A first boundary region and a second boundary region bound the clamping region along the longitudinal axis of the clamping bolt Each boundary region has a larger external diameter than the clamping region. The attachment is arranged on the first boundary region. A through-going opening runs along the longitudinal axis of the clamping bolt.
US10007869B2
A payment card receiver including at least one element defining a payment card receiving slot, a shutter, pivotably mounted with respect to the payment card receiving slot for selectably blocking the payment card receiving slot and a card-operated shutter movement restricting switch operative to retain the shutter in a shutter movement restricting operative orientation, in which the shutter blocks the payment card receiving slot, in the absence of at least partial insertion of a payment card in the payment card receiving slot.
US10007866B2
A training engine is described which has a memory arranged to access a neural network image classifier, the neural network image classifier having been trained using a plurality of training images from an input space, the training images being labeled for a plurality of classes. The training engine has an adversarial example generator which computes a plurality of adversarial images by, for each adversarial image, searching a region in the input space around one of the training images, the region being one in which the neural network is linear, to find an image which is incorrectly classified into the plurality of classes by the neural network. The training engine has a processor which further trains the neural network image classifier using at least the adversarial images.
US10007863B1
Accurately detection of logos in media content on media presentation devices is addressed. Logos and products are detected in media content produced in retail deployments using a camera. Logo recognition uses saliency analysis, segmentation techniques, and stroke analysis to segment likely logo regions. Logo recognition may suitably employ feature extraction, signature representation, and logo matching. These three approaches make use of neural network based classification and optical character recognition (OCR). One method for OCR recognizes individual characters then performs string matching. Another OCR method uses segment level character recognition with N-gram matching. Synthetic image generation for training of a neural net classifier and utilizing transfer learning features of neural networks are employed to support fast addition of new logos for recognition.
US10007862B2
A system and method for detecting an object of interest. A system and method may generate a first signature for an object of interest based on an image of the object of interest. A system and method may generate a second signature for a candidate object based on an image of the candidate object. A system and method may calculate a similarity score by relating the first signature to the second signature and may determine the image of the candidate object is an image of the object of interest based on the similarity score.
US10007854B2
The present invention includes computer vision based driver assistance devices, systems, methods and associated computer executable code (hereinafter collectively referred to as: “ADAS”). According to some embodiments, an ADAS may include one or more fixed image/video sensors and one or more adjustable or otherwise movable image/video sensors, characterized by different dimensions of fields of view. According to some embodiments of the present invention, an ADAS may include improved image processing. According to some embodiments, an ADAS may also include one or more sensors adapted to monitor/sense an interior of the vehicle and/or the persons within. An ADAS may include one or more sensors adapted to detect parameters relating to the driver of the vehicle and processing circuitry adapted to assess mental conditions/alertness of the driver and directions of driver gaze. These may be used to modify ADAS operation/thresholds.
US10007835B2
There are included a colony evaluation unit 31 that acquires an evaluation result of the cell colony in a cell image obtained by imaging the cell colony, a divided region setting unit 32 that sets a plurality of divided regions by dividing the region of the cell colony according to the evaluation result, a display control unit 34 that displays each of the plurality of divided regions, and a region deformation unit 33 that deforms the divided regions according to a change in the form of the cell colony due to an operation on the cell colony. The display control unit 34 changes a display of the divided regions before the change in form of the cell colony to a display of the divided regions after the deformation.
US10007831B2
An information processing apparatus includes a touch panel; a camera; and a processor coupled to the touch panel and the camera and configured to: display first guide information on the touch panel, display second guide information at a location different from a location of the first guide information on the touch panel when an operation to the first guide information is detected, acquire a plurality of images of a first palm photographed during a period from when a finger touching to the first guide information has been detected to when a finger touching to the second guide information has been detected, and extract a first authentication image for use in authentication of a user from the plurality of images of the first palm.
US10007806B2
Disabling communication in a multiprocessor fabric. The multiprocessor fabric may include a plurality of processors and a plurality of communication elements and each of the plurality of communication elements may include a memory. A configuration may be received for the multiprocessor fabric, which specifies disabling of communication paths between one or more of: one or more processors and one or more communication elements; one or more processors and one or more other processors; or one or more communication elements and one or more other communication elements. Accordingly, the multiprocessor fabric may be automatically configured in hardware to disable the communication paths specified by the configuration. The multiprocessor fabric may be operated to execute a software application according to the configuration.
US10007805B2
The system may comprise receiving a data element, and receiving an encryption key and an associated encryption key identifier from an encryption keystore database. The system may further comprise transmitting the data element to an encryption module for encryption using the encryption key to form an encrypted data element. The system may also comprise receiving the encrypted data element from the encryption module and concatenating the encryption key identifier with the encrypted data element to form a protected data field entry.
US10007803B2
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method, system and computer readable medium for searching over encrypted keywords in a database. The method includes the steps of generating at least one keyword, generating a plurality of different encrypted keywords corresponding to the keyword, storing the at least one encrypted keyword in the database, generating a plurality of different trapdoors for the keyword, verifying the plurality of different trapdoors with the plurality of different encrypted keywords corresponding to the keyword, and determining the keyword is found if the plurality of different trapdoors match with one the encrypted keyword corresponding to the keyword, otherwise determining the keyword is not found.
US10007802B2
A device with a touch sensitive display and a plurality of applications, including a camera application, while the device is in a locked, passcode-protected state: displays a lock screen interface, the lock screen interface including a camera access indicia; detects a gesture; in response to a determination that the gesture starts on the camera access indicia: ceases to display the lock screen interface; starts a restricted session for the camera application; displays an interface for the camera application, without displaying a passcode entry interface; and maintains the device in the locked, passcode-protected state for the applications other than the camera application; and in response to a determination that the gesture starts at a location other than the camera access indicia: displays a passcode entry interface, wherein in response to entry of a correct passcode in the passcode entry interface, the device enters an unlocked state.
US10007799B2
A hardware processor may execute instructions to execute at least one request from a plurality of profiles with corresponding credentials used to access inputs from at least one source of input, and the credential corresponds to a placeholder tag corresponding to a particular task of the workflow. In some examples, the source of input may be adjusted based on the requests and the association corresponding to the respective profiles.
US10007794B2
The present invention relates to a method and system used to ensure that a printer which is capable of printing security patterns loses its ability to print these patterns if the printer is disconnected from an approved system and, more particularly, to a method and system including a printer containing an encrypted key and password loaded into its memory, where the stored password must match a password present in a data stream sent from the host software application in order to print a requested print job.
US10007791B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a set of security features capable of being enabled by a user associated with an online service. In some implementations, it can be determined that at least one security feature in the set has yet to be enabled by the user. A communication can be provided to the user. In some instances, the communication can indicate that a quantity of social connections associated with the user has already enabled the at least one security feature. One or more options to enable the at least one security feature can be provided to the user.
US10007782B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides system for facilitating replacement of a system function in an application with a customized function. During operation, the system shifts an existing load command in a file of an application to accommodate an additional load command. The system also adds the additional load command to the file. The additional load command identifies additional instructions that change a pointer of the application from a value that points to a system function to another value that points to a customized function.
US10007779B1
Methods and systems are provided to enable gradual expiration of credentials. Instead of depriving a user of all his access rights upon expiration of his credential (e.g., password), the user's access rights may be gradually restricted during a grace period after an expected or initial expiration time and/or before a final expiration time. The access right may be determined based on a duration from a time of the access request to the final expiration time or to the initial expiration time.
US10007770B2
An input device for an electronic system includes: an input surface, configured to provide an interface for determining positional information for an input object in a sensing region of the input device; a biometric sensor, configured to determine biometric information about a user; and a processing system, configured to: in response to placement of a valid biometric object on the biometric sensor, enable access to a secure object of the electronic system while the valid biometric object is maintained on the biometric sensor; and disable access to the secure object of the electronic system in response to removal of the valid biometric object from the biometric sensor.
US10007764B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a medicine dispensing device comprising: a medicine storage portion for storing a medicine; a medicine discharge portion for discharging the medicine stored at the medicine storage portion; a communication module for communicating with a hospital server; and a control portion for controlling the operation of the medicine storage portion and the medicine discharge portion so as to allow the medicine to be discharged on the basis of prescription information of a prescription received from the hospital server through the communication module.
US10007757B2
A scheduling system and method are provided. The system and method provide a mechanism for a customer to schedule appointments directly with healthcare providers which is not presently possible since each healthcare provider may use a different practice management system that has different formats and protocols.
US10007753B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a computer-implemented method for determining a genetic result from a biological sample is provided. The method includes receiving nucleic acid amplification data of a biological sample, by a processor, from a biological instrument. The method further includes storing translation data, in a memory. The translation data includes a pattern of assay values associated with possible genetic results. The method further includes comparing the translation data with the nucleic acid amplification data, by the processor, to generate the genetic result of the biological sample. Moreover, the method includes displaying the genetic result, on a display, to a user.
US10007750B2
A layout design of a standard cell for a set of masks includes a first gate pad layout pattern, a second gate pad layout pattern immediately adjacent to the first gate pad layout pattern, and a third gate pad layout pattern immediately adjacent to the second gate pad layout pattern. Each gate pad layout pattern has first and second sides extending along a first direction, the second side further along a second direction than the first side. A first gate pad pitch is a distance between first sides of the first and second gate pad layout patterns and has a value different from that of a second gate pad pitch that is a distance between first sides of the second and third gate pad layout patterns. Each gate pad pattern is usable for forming a gate pad surrounding a set of channel structures.
US10007744B2
Methods and systems for automatically generating robust metrology targets which can accommodate a variety of lithography processes and process perturbations. Individual steps of an overall lithography process are modeled into a single process sequence to simulate the physical substrate processing. That process sequence drives the creation of a three-dimensional device geometry as a whole, rather than “building” the device geometry element-by-element.
US10007741B2
Systems and methods for simulating a geological formation of a fluvial zone by using observation data and a spatial model of the fluvial zone. The displacement of particles in the spatial model is simulated by superimposing a deterministic term defined by the observation data and a stochastic term parameterized by the observation data. By virtue of this method, it is possible to take into account both the fluid flow of the particles in the fluvial zone and introduce a probabilistic perturbation.
US10007740B2
Embodiments relate to generating a retrieval condition for retrieving a target character string from texts by pattern matching. An aspect includes dividing a first text into words. Another aspect includes generating a converted character string by performing at least one of appending at least one character in at least either one of previous and subsequent positions of the target character string. Another aspect includes replacing at least one character of the target character string. Another aspect includes generating the retrieval condition for retrieval candidates in the words of the first text, the retrieval condition comprising determining that a retrieval candidate matches the target character string and does not match the converted character string based on a ratio of a part of the retrieval candidate which matches the converted character string and corresponds to the target character string is less than or equal to a reference frequency.
US10007739B1
Methods for reconciling an address database include comparing addresses in an update database to addresses in a production database. A second comparison of unique addresses from the first comparison is executed, the second comparison allowing matching of addresses that the first comparison did not match.
US10007738B2
The present invention provides a method for forming a webpage, a peripheral apparatus, and a system. The method includes: when a webpage forming request sent by a client is received, acquiring, from the client, language information for forming a webpage; and sending webpage data to the client according to the language information and a preset webpage description file, so that the client displays, on the client according to the webpage data, a webpage formed by adopting the language information. According to the webpage forming method, peripheral apparatus, and system in these embodiments, after receiving a webpage forming request from a client, the peripheral apparatus acquires language information for forming a webpage form the client, and sends webpage data to the client according to the language information, so that a language adopted for a webpage displayed by the client meets a user's habits, thereby facilitating the user.
US10007734B2
A generic means for synchronizing information about a user's view of a document or other content within an application across native client and web applications is provided. Attendees of an online broadcast are enabled to see what the presenter is seeing within their own application. In addition, meeting-specific information such as the meeting time and notes may be synchronized enabling nearly real time synchronization. Moreover, by enabling attendees to view the presented document within their own applications, the attendees are afforded the capabilities provided by that application, such as navigating through the document manually.
US10007721B1
Humans have collaborated in both small and large groups for thousands of years, sometimes achieving great feats for the good of all mankind. However, most groups have failed to achieve greatness, often because of poor group “chemistry” and/or because of missing skills or insights. These problems typically arise because group organizers build groups using human mental processes that suffer from social, racial, gender, ethnic, or other unconscious biases. To reduce impact of these biases and help organizers form more effective groups or teams, the present inventors have devised, among other things, an exemplary system that subdivides a group of user data structures into subgroups, based on similarities between electronic surveys and/or other data types, such as social media and network analysis data types. The system further includes user interfaces for creating surveys, implementing user preferences regarding subgroup membership and sizes, controlling the subdivision process, and displaying the subgroups.
US10007717B2
Methods and apparatus related to clustering documents based on one or more classification terms and optionally based on similarity of structural paths of the documents. In some implementations, the documents are communications such as structured emails or other structured communications. In some of those implementations, clustering the communications includes identifying a plurality of classification terms indicative of a classification, identifying a corpus of communications that includes communications that are not labeled with an association to the classification, and determining a cluster of the communications based on occurrence of one or more of the classification terms in the communications of the cluster.
US10007716B2
An event clustering system is provided. An extraction engine is in communication with an infrastructure. The extraction engine in operation receives data from the infrastructure and produces events. An alert engine receives the events and creates alerts mapped into a matrix, M. A sigalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine, a k-means clustering engine and a topology proximity engine. The sigalizer engine determines one or more common steps from events and produces clusters relating to the alerts and or events. A data extraction device is configured to be coupled to the event clustering system.
US10007701B2
Techniques are described for generating automated advice with respect to consolidating a plurality of sources. A set of one or more parameters relating to a proposed consolidation for a plurality of consolidation sources is received. In response to receiving the set of one or more parameters, a set of one or more recommendations for consolidating the plurality of consolidation sources is generated and stored on at least one of a volatile or non-volatile computer-readable storage medium. The set of one or more recommendations may indicate how to improve a performance associated with consolidating the plurality of sources to a set of one or more destinations based on a particular consolidation scenario. The set of one or more recommendations may be displayed during consolidation planning for the plurality of consolidation sources.
US10007699B2
A computer-implemented method for querying a data source using an optimized exclusion filter expression created from a full filter expression is described. The method includes receiving one or more queries defined by the full filter expression, wherein the one or more queries are for obtaining an output from the data source; performing a reduction on the full filter expression to determine the optimized exclusion filter expression; applying the optimized exclusion filter expression in the data source to exclude data; and applying the full filter expression to data not excluded by the optimized exclusion filter expression.
US10007696B2
A feeding module for an address book includes a processor and a memory. The processor receives at least one search parameter. The processor accesses information sources to find existing entities and expecting entities that match the at least one search parameter. The memory stores the found existing entities and the found expecting entities. The feeding module forwards the found existing entities and the found expecting entities to an address book to be displayed.
US10007695B1
Computer-implemented techniques for replication-lag constrained deletion of data in a distributed data storage system. In some aspects, the techniques improve the operation of a computing system by preventing too high of a delete rate that causes severe replication lag while at the same time increasing and decreasing the delete rate over time to a maximum allowable delete rate constrained by measured replication lag in terms of both local replication lag and geographic replication lag. In one implementation, the delete rate is adjusted by increasing or decreasing a pause interval that determines how long a database data deletion process pauses between submitting database deletion commands to a database server.
US10007694B2
A method, system, and computer program product for managing data sets of a storage facility is disclosed. The method, system, and computer program product include determining, by analyzing a first data set, that the first data set includes a first record having padded data. To identify the padded data, the method, system, and computer program product include comparing at least a portion of the first record of the first data set with a second record of a second data set. Next, the method, system, and computer program product include removing, from the first record of the first data set, the padded data.
US10007689B1
The present disclosure extends to temporally consistent group keys for groups of linked records in a data store. In embodiments, records in the data store can be categorized as persistent or temporary. Each record carries a unique record identifier and a timestamp depicting the record's time of creation. The group key for a group is the record identifier for the oldest persistent record in the group. If a group has no persistent records, the group key is the record identifier for the oldest temporary record in the group. If two or more records have identical timestamps, the group key is the first record identifier in a lexicographical ordering of the record identifiers for records having the earliest timestamps.
US10007686B2
An automatic physical-layout designer for a database-management system determines the database's physical layout from a set of training queries, the database's logical design, and a parameter k that indicates how many storage nodes can be lost without losing access to any of the data. The designer lays the database out as a column store such that the stored columns constitute redundant projections on the system's different storage nodes. It repeatedly identifies a projection, whose addition to the design will result in the greatest performance improvement for the training queries. In doing so, it takes into account the different compression formats to which the different projections lend themselves. When a projection has been identified as one to be added, it is added on one node, and k projections having the same columns are added to other nodes. The designer continues thus adding projections until a space budget has been reached.
US10007683B1
Conditional creation of child nodes based on ancestor node metadata runtime values are described. A system receives, from an end user device, a runtime request to create an instance of a child node in a case model. The system identifies an instance of an ancestor node associated with the instance of the child node. The system identifies a runtime value of metadata associated with the instance of the ancestor node and corresponding to the instance of the child node. The system determines whether the runtime value of the metadata satisfies a condition. The system creates the instance of the child node in response to a determination that the runtime value of the metadata satisfies the condition. The system enables the end user device to access the created child node.
US10007671B1
A method of conditionally truncating a volume file in a data storage system includes identifying counts of categories of data blocks of the volume file, including (1) a first count of blocks owned by the volume file and located after the target end-of-file, (2) a second count of blocks located after the target end-of-file and requiring relocation to before the target end-of-file, and (3) a third count of blocks being free and owned by the volume file and located before the target end-of-file. An approximation of space to be freed is generated as a difference between the first count and a value expressing an excess of the second count over the third count. When the approximation is above a predetermined threshold, then the volume file is truncated to the target end-of-file, and otherwise truncating is refrained from.
US10007664B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for linking virtual content to various types of object, such a static physical objects, through the use of triggers of varying formats. The virtual content can be updated by a content curator over time. The virtual content can be translated into a plurality of languages and can be selectively transmitted to a mobile communications device upon receipt of the trigger.
US10007663B2
An iterative language translation system includes multiple communicatively connected statistical speech translation systems. The system includes an automatic speech recognition component adapted to recognize spoken language in a source language and to create a source language hypothesis. A machine translation component is adapted to translate the source language hypothesis into a target language. The system also includes a second automatic speech recognition component and second machine translation component. The translation results are used to adapt the automatic speech recognition components and the language hypotheses are used to adapt the machine translation components.
US10007659B2
A method includes acquiring a first corpus, including first text of a first sentence including a first word and described in a natural language, and second text of a second sentence including a second word different in meaning from the first word, a second word distribution of the second word being similar to a first word distribution of the first word, acquiring a second corpus including third text of a third sentence, including a third word identical to the first word and/or the second word, a third word distribution of the third word being not similar to the first word distribution, based on an arrangement of a word string in the first corpus and the second corpus, assigning to the first word a first vector representing a meaning of the first word and assigning to the second word a second vector representing a meaning of the second word.
US10007658B2
Systems and methods for multi-stage recognition of named entities based on morphological and semantic features of natural language texts. An example method comprises: performing a lexico-morphological analysis of a natural language text comprising a plurality of tokens, each token comprising at least one natural language word; determining, based on the lexico-morphological analysis, one or more lexical meanings and grammatical meanings associated with each token of the plurality of tokens; for each token the plurality of tokens, evaluating one or more classifier functions using the lexical and grammatical meanings associated with the tokens, wherein a value of each classifier function is indicative of a degree of association of the token with a category of named entities; performing a syntactico-semantic analysis of at least part of the natural language text to produce a plurality of semantic structures representing the part of the natural language text; and interpreting the semantic structures using a set of production rules to determine, for one or more tokens comprised by the part of the natural language text, a degree of association of the token with a category of named entities.
US10007648B2
Embodiments relate to supporting creation of a manual of a program product. An aspect includes recording into a recording medium that can be accessed by the computer a screen character string, a translated character string where the screen character string has been translated to another language, or an identifier associated with the screen character string or the translated character string, displayed on a display device by the program product. Another aspect includes recording into the recording medium attribute information of the screen character string or the translated character string. Yet another aspect includes maintaining consistency between the screen character string or the translated character string and a character string that is displayed on a display device by an application for creating the manual, using the screen character string, the translated character string or identifier recorded on the recording medium and the attribute information.
US10007647B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation for validating and adapting a GUI structure to a screen of a client device. The operation comprises receiving by the client device a software agent together with a device dependent arrangement rule. The software agent is adapted for analyzing received GUI code for identifying GUI elements to be rendered on the screen and determining a relative arrangement of the rendered GUI elements. If the relative arrangement is not compliant with the device dependent arrangement rule, the software agent determines a distance between GUI elements of the relative arrangement and a relative arrangement of the GUI elements in accordance with the device dependent arrangement rule, amends the GUI code to re-arrange the GUI elements towards the improved arrangement, and re-renders the GUI elements for the screen using the amended GUI code.
US10007646B1
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement authoring and presentation of information to users in electronic formats. The document may include multiple hierarchical levels, where the entirety of a given hierarchical level is displayed along with each sub-level that is associated with selected level. The contents of the entire hierarchy of any portion of a hierarchy can be displayed inline at any given level of the document.
US10007644B2
Actual values of statistical signatures are computed. The actual values of statistical signatures correspond to analytical elements of a sample dataset. The computed actual values are discretized by assigning bucket values to the computed actual values. An aggregate score based on the assigned bucket values are computed. The assigned bucket values correspond to the analytical elements. The analytical elements of the sample dataset are ranked, based on the computed aggregate score. Combination of analytical elements is identified, and cumulative rank is computed based on the individual ranks of the analytical elements in the combination. The combinations of analytical elements are automatically displayed in a user interface associated with automatic visual discoveries.
US10007643B2
Embodiments relate to methodologies and program product is provided for conducting regression analysis. In one embodiment the method includes obtaining data related to a statistical process including a plurality of points in a plurality of dimensions and organizing the plurality of points and the plurality of dimensions in a matrix. The method also includes calculating a vector of a particular measurement such that the measurement equal the number of the plurality of points and calculating a least absolute deviation by determining the number of non-zero entries provided in the matrix.
US10007622B2
A method for reducing load in a memory module. In such a method, a plurality of memory chips are coupled to a circuit platform. Each memory chip of the plurality of memory chips each has a plurality of memory dies. At least one controller is coupled to the circuit platform and further coupled to the plurality of memory chips for communication with the plurality of memory dies thereof. The at least one controller is for receiving chip select signals to provide a plurality of rank select signals in excess of the chip select signals. The plurality of memory dies are coupled with wire bonds within the plurality of memory chips for a reduced load for coupling the circuit platform for communicating via a memory channel. The load is sufficiently reduced for having at least two instances of the memory module share the memory channel.
US10007608B2
A method to store objects in a memory cache is disclosed. A request is received from an application to store an object in a memory cache associated with the application. The object is stored in a cache region of the memory cache based on an identification that the object has no potential for storage in a shared memory cache and a determination that the cache region is associated with a storage policy that specifies that objects to be stored in the cache region are to be stored in a local memory cache and that a garbage collector is not to remove objects stored in the cache region from the local memory cache.
US10007602B2
For flash copy relationship management, a management module identifies a data unit in a flash copy relationship with an extent range using a flash copy table. A resolution module erases the flash copy relationship from the flash copy table in response to the flash copy relationship completing.
US10007598B2
An apparatus for testing applications includes a data-processing machine including a memory and a processor operably coupled to the memory. The data-processing machine is configured to implement a data-driven testing framework that includes a data engineering module, a computational environment manager, and a result analysis module. The data engineering module is configured to create engineered test data based at least in part on the application to be tested. The computational environment manager is configured to control a computational environment in which the application is to operate on the engineered test data. The result analysis module is configured to compare engineered test data operated upon by the application with an expected output.
US10007588B2
A method and apparatus for generating an address sequence in a memory device is provided. The method includes providing a memory array having a set of unique addresses, storing one of a first subset of the set of unique addresses in a first storage element, storing one of a second subset of the set of unique addresses in a second storage element, and generating a sequence of addresses to test the memory array. The sequence of addresses are formed by alternately outputting addresses stored in the first storage element and the second storage element such that the sequence of addresses causes each unique address of the set to transition only once. The sequence of addresses can be used to efficiently test the memory array during a built-in self-test (BIST).
US10007585B2
The disclosure is directed towards fault-tolerant methods, systems and architectures for data distribution. One method includes generating fault distribution tables. The table entries correspond to a copy of data records. The entry and copy are associated with a fault status, a node, and a group that are based on a position of the entry within the distribution table. The method also includes storing the copy of the data record that corresponds to the entry in a database that is included in a plurality of databases. In response to determining an unavailable node included in the plurality of nodes, the method determines a fault status, a node, and a group. The method provides an available node sequential access to data records that are stored in a particular database that is stored locally on the available node in a tree structure.
US10007584B2
Implementations provide for automated container migration in a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device executing a control server of a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system, identification of a distressed node of the multi-tenant PaaS system and a resource under contention at the distressed node, providing, by the control server, identification of the resource under contention to the distressed node, receiving, by the control server, identification of a candidate container executing on the distressed node, wherein the candidate container contributes to the resource under contention on the distressed node and is launched from an instance of an application image corresponding to an application of the PaaS system, and sending, by the control server, the identification of the candidate container to a PaaS master component of the PaaS system and a request to migrate the candidate container from the distressed node.
US10007581B2
A technique referred to as “data structure chronicles” is described that may be used to build strictly failure resilient persistent concurrent data structures. A “chronicle” maintains a persistent history of operations invoked on a persistent data structure that can be replayed to recover the current consistent state of the data structure after a failure. The chronicle technique may also enable composability of data structure operations with the enclosing application. In addition, the chronicle technique is non-blocking, a desirable progress condition for concurrent data structures. A lock free, non-blocking chronicle stack algorithm is described that may outperform a lock-based implementation in the presence of high contention. In addition, a lock free, non-blocking chronicle queue algorithm is described.
US10007579B2
Embodiments of memory backup management in computing devices and associated methods of operations are disclosed therein. In one embodiment, a method of managing memory backup includes in response to a system error being detected, causing a memory controller to disengage from communicating with and controlling a hybrid memory device having a volatile memory module and a non-volatile memory module. The method can also include causing the hybrid memory device to copy data from the volatile memory module to the non-volatile memory module subsequent to disengaging the memory controller communicating with and controlling the storage device and without operating the main processor and the memory controller.
US10007578B2
An approach for improving application performance after database recovery is provided, the approach involving tracking one or more applications connecting to a database, tracking metadata in memory on a server computer, wherein the metadata is accessed by the one or more applications, recovering the metadata during a database recovery occurring after a database crash and repopulating the metadata in memory on the server computer during the database recovery, wherein the repopulating occurs prior to the metadata being requested by the one or more applications.
US10007572B2
A method of operating a memory system includes receiving information data corresponding to a second program unit that is a part of a first program unit and a write request for the information data from a host; generating a codeword by performing error correction code (ECC) encoding on the received information data such that a partial parity bit corresponding to the information data among all parity bits of the codeword is updated; and providing a memory device with the generated codeword and a write command regarding the codeword.
US10007570B2
In an in-vehicle network system (100), a parent control unit (10) and a child control unit (20) constitute a control unit. In the in-vehicle network system (100), a monitoring unit (70) acquires communication data being communicated between the parent control unit (10) and the child control unit (20) and flowing in an in-vehicle network (30) which connects the parent control unit (10) and the child control unit (20) to each other. The monitoring unit (70) diagnoses an abnormality in the parent control unit (10) based on the communication data acquired by the monitoring unit (70) and diagnostic data stored by a memory unit.
US10007565B1
A computing device may receive from a first application executing on at least one processor an indication of an action to be performed. The computing device may determine, based on at least the indication of the action to be performed, a plurality of deep links to a plurality of actions performable by a plurality of applications. The computing device may select a subset of deep links from the plurality of deep links. The computing device may output for display a graphical user interface including an indication of each deep link from the subset of deep links. The computing device may receive an indication of a user input, the user input corresponding to a selection of one of the deep links from the subset of deep links. A second application executing on the at least one processor may perform an action linked to by the selected deep link.
US10007558B2
A method for allocating a central processing unit resource to a virtual machine, including determining, according to a change in the number of virtual machines in an advanced resource pool, the number of allocated physical cores in the advanced resource pool; and adjusting, according to the number of the allocated physical cores in the advanced resource pool, the number of allocated physical cores in a default resource pool, where the advanced resource pool and the default resource pool are resource pools that are obtained by dividing physical cores of a central processing unit according to service levels of the resource pools.
US10007555B1
Techniques for dynamic resource management are provided. An example method includes identifying one or more applications executing on a computing device, wherein one or more user interface elements representing the applications allow switching between interaction with the applications, determining an application of the one or more applications that is presently not receiving interaction from a user, selectively reducing resources allocated to the determined application based at least on a past usage pattern of the application or predicted future interaction with the application while continuing display of a user interface element representing the application, and when the determined application is predicted to receive future interaction by the user, increasing resources allocated to the determined application prior to the predicted future interaction.
US10007554B2
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing information management applications. In an implementation, at least a portion of an information management application is embodied in program instructions that include various task modules and a scheduler module. In some implementations the program instructions are written in accordance with a single threaded programming language, such as JavaScript or any other suitable single threaded language. When executed, each task module returns control to the scheduler module upon completing. The scheduler module identifies to which of the plurality of task modules to grant control based at least in part on a relevance of each task module to a user interaction.
US10007549B2
An apparatus and method are described for a hardware transactional memory (HTM) profiler. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a transactional debugger (TDB) recording module to record data related to the execution of transactional memory program code, including data related to the execution of branches and transactional events in the transactional memory program code; and a profiler to analyze portions of the recorded data using trace-based replay techniques to responsively generate profile data comprising transaction-level events and function-level conflict data usable to optimize the transactional memory program code.
US10007547B2
A method of ordering multiple resources in a transaction includes receiving a transaction for a plurality of resources and determining, for each resource, the work embodied by the transaction. The method further may include specifying an order of the resources according to the determination of the work, committing the transaction, and invoking the resources in the specified order. Specifying the order of the resources may include specifying the resource to be invoked last. Alternatively, or additionally, specifying the order of the resources also may include specifying that each resource carrying out read-only work be invoked first.
US10007542B2
Embodiments perform automatic selection of hosts and/or datastores for deployment of a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) while monitoring and recovering from errors during deployment. Resource constraints associated with the VMs are compared against resources or characteristics of available hosts and datastores. A VM placement engine selects an optimal set of hosts/datastores and initiates VM creation automatically or in response to administrator authorization. During deployment, available resources are monitored enabling dynamic improvement of the set of recommended hosts/datastores and automatic recovery from errors occurring during deployment.
US10007539B2
A system for on-demand cloning of virtual machines (VMs) includes a virtual server to host a number of VMs, the virtual server including at least one master VM. The system also includes a Web server to authenticate a user in response to a request for online access to a new VM on the virtual server. In addition, the system includes a cloning module, in communication with the Web server and the virtual server, to automatically clone the master VM to create a unique VM clone for the user on the virtual server responsive to the request.
US10007534B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage asset in a computing environment using a common agent framework. An example method includes maintaining a catalog of capabilities available to an asset based on plugins installed at the asset. The example method also includes determining whether a capability is installed at the asset based on the catalog of capabilities, and installing the capability at the asset when the capability is not installed at the asset. The example method also includes receiving, at the asset, a request to perform the capability, validating, via a processor, the request, and, in response to the validating, performing the capability.
US10007532B1
The present invention teaches methods for using a point-and-click interface to allow developers to create visual relationships between APIs and GUI components. Further, the present invention uses interactive machine learning to learn from developer actions. The present invention will assist Developers by providing recommendations on how their application should compile to a target platform. Developers may then configure their app and its connection to APIs (device and remote) directly from the present invention's point-and-click interface. The invention also teaches methods for visual recognition of data structures to allow sections of data to be targeted by a system that matches targeted data to a GUI component. The visual recognition system allows any type of data to move between systems and have required protocols applied at run time instead of during development in the way traditional software works.
US10007513B2
A method for enabling intelligence at the edge. Features include: triggering by sensor data in a software layer hosted on either a gateway device or an embedded system. Software layer is connected to a local-area network. A repository of services, applications, and data processing engines is made accessible by the software layer. Matching the sensor data with semantic descriptions of occurrence of specific conditions through an expression language made available by the software layer. Automatic discovery of pattern events by continuously executing expressions. Intelligently composing services and applications across the gateway device and embedded systems across the network managed by the software layer for chaining applications and analytics expressions. Optimizing the layout of the applications and analytics based on resource availability. Monitoring the health of the software layer. Storing of raw sensor data or results of expressions in a local time-series database or cloud storage. Services and components can be containerized to ensure smooth running in any gateway environment.
US10007508B2
According to one embodiment, upon reception of a command and an archive file for updating first firmware, a controller selects first information corresponding to information for identifying the memory system from a plurality of first information included in the header. The controller acquires second information included in the selected first information, and acquires one of a plurality of second firmware included in the archive file based on the acquired second information, to update the first firmware by the acquired second firmware.
US10007502B2
A method is disclosed for updating communication equipment through a server in a communication system, wherein the server stores the updated files used for updating the communication equipment. In this method, configuration data in the communication equipment are backed up in the server at first, the updated files are downloaded to the communication equipment from the server, the updated files are loaded to the communication equipment to implement the communication equipment update, and the configuration data backed up in the server are recovered to the communication equipment. The present invention can guarantee the successful update of the communication equipment and no data loss after the update, thus the security of the communication equipment update is greatly improved.
US10007495B2
Code generation method for scheduling processors using hook function and exception handling function
A code generating method, a compiler, a scheduling method, an apparatus and a scheduling system where the generated code is an executable code and applied to a heterogeneous system, and the heterogeneous system includes an accelerated processor and a central processing unit (CPU) and the code generating method includes acquiring, by a compiler, resource information of the accelerated processor and resource information of the CPU in order to generate an operable platform list, identifying, by the compiler, accelerable code from first user code, embedding, by the compiler, a hook function and an exception handling function before the accelerable code to form second user code, and compiling, by the compiler, the second user code to obtain the executable code and the executable code generated may automatically implement proper scheduling of processors during execution.
US10007494B2
Method and system for dynamic management of viewable digital contents (CD_ij), in which arranging a modular interface (11) comprising principal digital modules (Pi) and derived digital modules (Dij) extending prevalently in a first direction (d1); translating at least one of the principal digital modules (Pi) along a first path (t1) so that the principal digital modules (Pi) overlap at least partially; expanding the principal digital modules (Pi) along a second path (t2); selecting a viewable digital content; expanding the selected viewable digital content (CD_ij) along a third path (t3), determining at least a first derived digital module (Dij), in which translating at least one of the principal digital modules (Pi) along the first path (t1), expanding the principal digital modules (Pi) along the second path (t2) and expanding the selected viewable digital content (CD_ij) along the third path (t3) determine selective dynamic accessibility to the viewable digital contents (CD_ij) on the modular interface (11). A modular interface (11) for dynamic management of the viewable digital contents (CD_ij) is also described.
US10007493B1
Event based validation includes detecting a user interface (UI) event in a page of a web application, and identifying a event subscriber of multiple event subscribers to the UI event. The event subscriber defines a validation condition, which is tested. When the validation condition is satisfied, an action, defined by the event subscriber is performed.
US10007489B1
A system and method automatically determines the physical memories inside a core or macro and their association with logical memories and their enabling signals. An integrated circuit (IC) source file that describes an integrated circuit in a hardware description language is received. The IC source file includes macros corresponding to memory. For each macro, a physical description file corresponding to the macro is generated. The description includes how the macro corresponds to the physical memory, associations of physical memories with the logical memory, enabling conditions, and data needed to test the memory.
US10007487B1
Systems and methods for using single-precision floating-point operation digital signal processing (DSP) blocks in conjunction to perform double-precision floating-point operations.
US10007479B2
A user terminal, a method for playing audio data via Bluetooth, and a digital signal processor are provided. The method includes: a digital signal processor receiving a basic packed data template from an application processor; a SBC module coding audio source data to obtain the audio data packet; the digital signal processor implementing a data packing to the audio data packet based on the basic packed data template, to obtain a packed audio data packet; the digital signal processor implementing dividing and packing to the packed audio data packet to obtain a data packet to be sent; and the digital signal processor sending the data packet requested to be sent to a Bluetooth controller via a PCM interface between the digital signal processor and the Bluetooth controller. Accordingly, the digital signal processor instead of the application processor is employed to achieve audio play, thus reducing power consumption.
US10007477B2
A method for displaying content displayed on one or more first devices on a second device is provided. The method includes receiving a request to display content currently displayed on a first device on a second device, the request including a gesture made on a screen of the first device, and pairing the first device to the second device. The method further includes transmitting instructions to the second device to display the content currently displayed on the first device, and transmitting the content currently displayed on the first device to the second device for display thereon.
US10007476B1
A mobile camera sharing system includes a host mobile device and a server. The host mobile device includes a mobile camera sharing client, a camera and embedded orientation sensors. The server is coupled to the host mobile device. The mobile camera sharing client generates a host media stream containing media and data from the orientation sensors which it sends to the server through a standard mobile carrier network. A remote mobile device includes a camera, and embedded orientation sensors. When the server receives the host media stream the server transmits the host media stream to the remote mobile device. As a user moves the remote mobile device the camera sharing client sends real time orthogonal orientation sensor data from the remote mobile device to the server so that when the server receives the orientation sensor data the server transmits the data to the host mobile device.
US10007475B2
A flexible display device including a memory; a display including an extendable and reducible screen; a sensor configured to detect a size of the screen; and a controller configured to display information on the extended screen, and store the information in the memory in response to the size of the screen being reduced while the information is selected.
US10007468B2
A data erasing method and apparatus applied to a flash memory. The method includes receiving a data erasing instruction, where the data erasing instruction instructs to erase data or at least one data section of data sections corresponding to data, when the data erasing instruction instructs to erase the data, searching for recorded storage addresses of all the data sections corresponding to the data, and erasing all the data sections corresponding to the data according to the storage addresses that are found; and when the data erasing instruction instructs to erase the at least one data section of the data sections corresponding to the data, searching for a recorded storage address of the at least one data section, and erasing the at least one data section according to the storage address that is found.
US10007467B2
A first control unit of a first control device executes: a synchronous copy process for writing data from a host device into a first storage medium, transmitting the data to a second control device, and replying to the host device; a storage process for storing the data written in the first storage medium into a first region, instructing the second control device on a buffer switch when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and switching a storage destination to a second region; and an asynchronous copy process for transmitting the data in the first region and the second region to a third control device at a time, respectively. A second control unit stores the data transmitted from the first control unit in a second storage medium and a third region, and when the buffer switch is instructed, stores the data in the second storage medium and a fourth region.
US10007466B1
Maintaining a set of extents corresponding to a portion of an initial logical volume that is to be copied includes initializing a table having entries corresponding to different portions of the initial logical volume, where each of the entries is initialized with a first value, following initializing the table, providing a second value different from the first value to an entry in the table corresponding to a portion of the initial logical volume to which a write operation is performed and establishing the set of extents, where the first value is provided to entries in the table that correspond to portions of the initial logical device indicated by the extents. Data of the initial logical volume corresponding to the set of extents may be copied to at least one other logical volume.
US10007463B2
A method for migrating a virtual machine disk (VM disk) from first physical storage to second physical storage while the virtual machine (VM) is running, the method comprising: (a) creating a first child VM disk to which writes are redirected from a first parent VM disk, the first parent VM disk being on the first physical storage; (b) copying the first parent VM disk to the second physical storage as a second parent VM disk; (c) re-parenting the first VM child disk to the second parent VM disk; and (d) consolidating the first child VM disk and the second parent VM disk.
US10007461B1
Accesses to a number of data blocks stored in a distributed storage are observed. Following observation of the accesses, the stored data blocks are redistributed. In one aspect, redistribution of the data blocks includes determining the access patterns for one or more of the data blocks based on the observed accesses, and determining the storage sizes for the one or more data blocks. Thereafter, based on the determined access patterns and determined storage sizes, the one or more data blocks are sorted. Subsequently, the one or more data blocks are redistributed or rebalanced across a number of storage devices of the distributed storage based on the sorting. In one aspect, the one or more data blocks are redistributed according to either a uniform distribution scheme or a proportional distribution scheme.
US10007454B2
A memory device may include a command controller configured to buffer an address based on a refresh enable signal and a repair enable signal. The memory device may include a fuse circuit configured to control a rupture operation of a refresh cell array and repair cell array corresponding to the address according to the refresh enable signal and the repair enable signal, and output a refresh control signal and a repair control signal during a boot-up operation. The memory device may include a refresh controller configured to control a refresh operation of a bank according to a refresh control signal. The memory device may include a repair controller configured to control a repair operation of the bank according to a redundancy signal.
US10007439B2
A memory system having a serial data interface and a serial data path core for receiving data from and for providing data to at least one memory bank as a serial bitstream. The memory bank is divided into two halves, where each half is divided into upper and lower sectors. Each sector provides data in parallel to a shared two-dimensional page buffer with an integrated self column decoding circuit. A serial to parallel data converter within the memory bank couples the parallel data from either half to the serial data path core. The shared two-dimensional page buffer with the integrated self column decoding circuit minimizes circuit and chip area overhead for each bank, and the serial data path core reduces chip area typically used for routing wide data buses. Therefore a multiple memory bank system is implemented without a significant corresponding chip area increase when compared to a single memory bank system having the same density.
US10007438B2
A computing device having interface, memory, and processing module, transmits write requests for a set of encoded data slices to storage units (SUs) of a dispersed storage network (DSN) based on a write request process and to receive proposal records for a subset of the set of encoded data slices from at least some of the SUs. The computing device interprets the proposal records to determine whether it or any another computing device has a threshold number of its respective write requests in a first priority position in the ordered list of pending write requests. When no computing device has the threshold number, the computing device determines whether any computing device can be blacklisted and/or eliminated and whether a winner of the ballot can be determined after such determination. When a winner is determined, the computing device transmits finalize commands to the storage units.
US10007437B2
A management apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: sequentially read data from a movement-target storage area of a storage device included in a first storage apparatus when the data stored in the movement-target storage area is to be moved from the first storage apparatus to a second storage apparatus which is accessible at a higher speed than the first storage, the first storage apparatus including the storage device and a cache memory configured to cache the data stored in the storage device using a write-back scheme; read changed data among the pieces of data in the movement-target storage area from the cache memory; merge data read from the movement-target storage area and the changed data read from the cache memory; and write merged data to the second storage apparatus.
US10007436B2
A storage control apparatus includes a memory, and a processor. The memory is configured to retain associative relation information for managing an associative relation between a hash value associated with a first address being inputted and a second address as an address of the storage device, filter information containing Bloom filters, and overlap count management information. The processor executes a process that causes the storage control apparatus to perform first storing the storage target data in the storage device without being registered in the filter information, second storing the storage target data in the storage device as well as registering the storage target data in the filter information, performing neither registering the storage target data in the filter information nor storing the storage target data in the storage device and deleting deletable data from the storage device.
US10007431B2
Storage devices including a controller, a first memory coupled to the controller, and a second memory coupled to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to generate a linked list in response to a received access command, the linked list comprising one or more first entries corresponding to user data to be received from or outputted to an external device and one or more second entries for metadata to be generated by the storage device, and having a defined order of the first entries and the second entries corresponding to a defined data structure of a page of data of the first memory.
US10007429B2
Database performance may be improved by creating additional backups from an existing backup, rather than the original database or audit log source. A second backup may be created from a first backup by copying the files from the first backup to the second backup. The replication from a first backup to a second backup with modification of the file history information allows identical backups to exist on different types of storage devices, including virtual storage devices. Continue functionality may be implemented during a move function to restart replication at a new starting point while retaining the existing move set. Tape-type-override functionality may be implemented during the replication to replace the tape type for the backups with another compatible type while retaining the original type for history file entries, tape trailers, and messages.
US10007425B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes displaying an application screen of an executing application and a corresponding keypad on a display of the mobile terminal; modifying, via a controller of the mobile terminal, the keypad into a new keypad arrangement; displaying, via the controller, a display window in a vacant space created by the modification of the keypad, wherein a function of the display window is automatically selected based on a type of the executing application; and inputting text on the displayed application screen through the display window and modified keypad.
US10007417B2
A method and system for displaying information on a transparent display device includes receiving a touch input for selecting an object displayed on a screen of an external device that is viewable through a screen of the transparent display device, requesting the external device for information related to the object, receiving the information related to the object from the external device, and displaying the received information on the screen of the transparent display device.
US10007414B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for displaying a tutorial timeline chooser are disclosed. Displaying a tutorial timeline chooser may include generating an output for display, the output including a representation of a tutorial subject, wherein a tutorial associated with the tutorial subject includes a sequence of tutorial units, the output for display including a first portion including the representation of the tutorial subject, and a second portion including a tutorial timeline chooser for controlling the tutorial, wherein the tutorial timeline chooser includes a tutorial timeline and a plurality of tutorial segment indicators, wherein each tutorial segment indicator from the plurality of tutorial segment indicators corresponds with a respective tutorial unit from the sequence tutorial units, and transmitting or storing the output for display.
US10007407B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to detect incremental changes in clinical documents associated with a patient. A user selection is received indicating that a user wants to compare two or more clinical documents that are associated with the patient or authored by the same clinician, enabling the user to become up-to-date on the patient's care. A first clinical document and a second clinical document are identified. For the first clinical document and the second clinical document, differences are algorithmically determined. The first clinical document is transformed into a new representation of the first clinical document. Further, the second clinical document is transformed into a new representation of the second clinical document. One or more of the new representations of the first and the second clinical documents are displayed, assisting the user to quickly find and understand the differences between the documents.
US10007403B2
A system and a method that executes a memo function cooperating with an audio recording function are provided. The method includes executing a memo including memo data synchronized with audio data, wherein the memo data is configured to a plurality of objects, and each object is synchronized to a index point of the audio data, and outputting a screen corresponding to the execution of the memo, wherein the screen displays a progress bar for displaying a playback state of the audio data to first area and displays the memo data to a second area.
US10007392B2
Windows corresponding to independent applications in a windowed computing environment can be linked to have unified behavior. A host application can monitor window activity to determine if windows are intended to be grouped. Commands applied to one or more windows in a group are applied to at least some other windows in the group. Windows can be grouped or ungrouped according to various criteria including a priori configuration or user action. The window grouping permits a unified user interface behavior to be established for two or more independent applications.
US10007386B2
A mobile terminal device receives an input of a pressing operation when an operation surface is pressed. A pressing amount detecting unit detects whether or not the operation surface has been pressed. A grip determining unit determines whether or not the housing has been gripped by a user. A threshold adjusting unit adjusts a press detection sensitivity of the pressing amount detecting unit when the housing is gripped by the user and when the housing is not gripped by the user. By this means, it is possible to provide an input device which adequately detects a pressing operation, and a program which is executed by this input device.
US10007381B2
A mobile terminal including a light guide plate; a plurality of light sources disposed on at least one side of the light guide plate; a display positioned on a front surface of the light guide plate; and a controller configured to control the display to operate in one of operation states including a first state, in which all of the plurality of light sources are activated such that an entire portion of the display is illuminated, and a second state, in which at least one light source corresponding to a partial portion of the display among the plurality of light sources is selectively activated such that the partial portion of the display is illuminated, perform an operation in accordance with a first touch input applied to the partial portion of the display in the second state, and not perform an operation in accordance with a second touch input applied to a remaining portion excluding the partial portion of the display in the second state.
US10007380B2
In one embodiment, a touch input device includes a first electrode; a second electrode located on one side of the first electrode; a display disposed on one side of the first electrode opposite to the second electrode; and a spacer layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is a drive electrode, and the other is a receiving electrode that receives the drive signal by a mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. When an external pressure is applied to the first electrode through the display, the first electrode is concavely bent toward the second electrode. The mutual capacitance between the electrodes changes according to a distance between the electrodes. The magnitude of the external pressure according to the change of the capacitance between the electrodes is detected.
US10007371B2
A smartphone includes: a cover layer; a display module, and comprises a component configured to cause the LCD panel to perform a display function; a pressure electrode which is located under the display module; and a shielding member which is located under the pressure electrode. At least a portion of a touch sensor which senses touch in a capacitive manner is located in the display module.
US10007368B2
Different lamination methods may be used to create a touch sensor with a darkened side of metalized film facing the user. One lamination method includes laminating a metalized film to an optically clear adhesive (OCA) layer such that an edge of the metalized film including the termination pads remain un-adhered to the OCA layer. Flex-tails may be bonded to the termination pads at a later time by bending up the un-adhered edge. Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) may be placed on the termination pads prior to laminating the metalized films. Flex-tails may be placed onto an OCA layer in a location where the termination pads on the metalized film will be located when laminated to the OCA layer. A strip of ACF may be placed on the flex-tail pads. The flex-tails may be bonded to the termination pads of the metalized film prior to the metalized film being laminated.
US10007362B2
An electronic device and a method of operating an electronic device are provided. The method includes determine a motion of an electronic pen received in a pen storage unit of the electronic device; in response to the motion of the electronic pen, determining information related to the motion of the electronic pen; and executing at least one function corresponding to the information related to the detected motion of the electronic pen.
US10007339B2
A pair of handheld controllers with asymmetric tracking patterns for use with a tracking camera. The pair of controllers includes a right-hand controller and a left-hand controller. The right-hand and the left-hand controllers are substantially symmetric with respect to each other with the exception of their respective tracking patterns. A right-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the right-hand controller and a left-hand pattern of lights is disposed on the left-hand controller. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are asymmetric with respect to each other. The right-hand controller includes a right-hand handle portion and a surrounding right-hand ring portion and the left-hand controller includes a left-hand handle portion and a surrounding left-hand ring portion. The right-hand pattern of lights and the left-hand pattern of lights are disposed on the right-hand ring portion and the left-hand ring portion, respectively.
US10007331B2
A wearable intelligent system is provided. The system includes a frame; and a micro projector disposed on the frame configured to project an image interface onto a beam splitter. The system also includes the beam splitter disposed on the frame configured to receive the image interface and form a virtual image in a user's eye; and a position sensor disposed on the front of the frame configured to sense a position of at least a body part and a change mode of the position with time and convert the change mode of the position into operation commands and the position into a position data. Further, the system includes a central data hub disposed on the frame configured to at least receive the position data and the operation commands and adjust the image interface to match the part of the user's body and perform corresponding operations according to the position data.
US10007324B2
A memory system includes a memory device, to which a first power is supplied, and in which data is stored; a controller, to which s second power is supplied, and which is configured to control the memory device; an interface, to which a third power is supplied, and which is configured to transmit a command and data between the controller and the memory device; and a Low Dropout (LDO) Regulator configured to convert the first power into the third power and supply the third power to the interface.
US10007322B2
A multimedia device for effectively managing power consumption thereof based on a handle that is used when moving the multimedia device is provided. The multimedia device includes a display, a handle attached to the multimedia device, a sensor for sensing the state of the handle, a power supplier, and a controller configured to block power being supplied to the display, when a sensing value of the sensor indicates a state in which the handle is used.
US10007314B2
Mechanisms are provided for energy management signalling with an apparatus for processing data, such as a system-on-chip integrated circuit (2). Processing circuitry (6, 8, 10) is coupled to consumer energy interface circuitry (14, 16, 18) which communicates with energy management circuitry (4). The energy management signals which are communicated include a static power consumption signal indicative of a level of power consumption which is independent of processing operations being performed and a dynamic power consumption signal indicative of a level of dynamic power consumption which is dependent upon the processing operations being performed.
US10007310B2
A method includes generating temperature information from a plurality of temperature sensors within a computing device; and processing the temperature information to generate voltage reduction steps based on an observed rate of change of the temperature information.
US10007306B2
An embodiment is a memory card including a rectangular printed circuit card having a first side and a second side, a first length of between 151.35 and 161.5 millimeters, and first and second ends having a second length smaller than the first length. The memory card also includes a first plurality of pins on the first side extending along a first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card that extends along a length of the card, a second plurality of pins on the second side extending on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card, and a positioning key having its center positioned on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card and located between 94.0 and 95.5 millimeters from the first end of the rectangular printed circuit card. The memory card also includes a memory module, a hub device and pins for boundary scan signals.
US10007300B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate including: a flexible supporting base on which a plurality of rows of scanning lines and a plurality of columns of data lines are provided and are crossed to define a plurality of pixel units on the flexible supporting base. The flexible supporting base is further provided thereon with a plurality of rows of first signal lines and a plurality of columns of second signal lines, and conductor layers. Each of the conductor layers is located within one of at least some of the pixel units, is connected to a corresponding column of second signal line, and is configured for generating an electrical signal that is associated with a bent degree of the array substrate, and for outputting the electrical signal via the corresponding column of second signal line under driving of a signal from the first signal line. Meanwhile, a display panel and a method of detecting a bent degree of the same are disclosed.
US10007281B2
A thermostatic valve includes a housing internally provided with a receiving cavity and a thermostatic actuating element mounted in the receiving cavity. The receiving cavity is in communication with the exterior through at least three ports such as a first connecting port, a second connecting port, and a third connecting port. The thermostatic actuating element is mounted in the housing via two elastic members. An annular sealing collar which is fixedly mounted is provided in the receiving cavity. At least most of the thermostatic actuating element is located between the third port and the sealing collar. Such arrangement may ensure the temperature of the transmission oil when having a low temperature can rise rapidly and ensure the lubrication performance of a transmission. In addition, a processing precision requirement for components and parts can be reduced and manufacturing and mounting are more convenient.
US10007276B2
A pressure-regulating valve includes a valve sleeve with first and second ends defining a longitudinal axis, a sense line, a sense piston, a main chamber, and first and second valve spools. The sleeve includes an axially aligned bore. The sense line is within the bore proximate the first end. The sense piston is within the bore between the sense line and the second end, and is configured to move along the longitudinal axis in response to pressure exerted by fluid in the sense line. The main chamber is within the bore between the sense piston and the second end, and includes supply and vent ports. The first valve spool is within the bore between the sense piston and the second end. The second valve spool is within the bore between the first valve spool and the second end.
US10007273B2
A system includes a choke valve, an actuator configured to adjust a position of the choke valve, a variable frequency drive configured to adjust a speed at which the actuator adjusts the position of the choke valve, and a controller configured to receive first feedback indicative of a fluid pressure upstream of the choke valve, compare the first feedback to a first predetermined pressure range, and instruct the variable frequency drive to send electricity to the actuator at a first frequency when the first feedback is outside of the first predetermined pressure range, where the variable frequency drive is configured to control a speed and a direction of the actuator such that the actuator adjusts the position of the choke valve to a first position at a first speed, and where the first speed is based at least on a difference between the first feedback and the first predetermined pressure range.
US10007272B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle docking systems and methods are presented herein. A UAV can hover in a hovering position above a docking pad of the UAV docking system based on positioning measurements. An on-board camera can image a machine-readable code present on the docking pad. The hovering position of the UAV above the docking pad can be adjusted based on imaging of the machine-readable code and ranging measurements to the docking pad. A tether can be extended from the UAV towards the docking pad. The hovering position of the UAV and extension of the tether can be adjusted such that a mating device present on a distal end of the tether engages with a coupling device of the UAV docking pad. The tether can be reeled in to the UAV to assist in lowering the UAV from the hovering position to a landing position on the docking pad.
US10007253B2
When first cross-sectional image data representing a target model corresponding to a shape of a three-dimensional printing object, and second cross-sectional image data representing both of the target model and a support model corresponding to a shape of a member assisting the creation of the three-dimensional printing object, are recognized to match each other by at least a predetermined ratio, the second cross-sectional image data is stored in a storage as third cross-sectional image data. In contrast, when the first cross-sectional image data and the second cross-sectional image data are recognized not to match each other by at least the predetermined ratio, synthesis data of the first cross-sectional image data and the second cross-sectional image data is stored in the storage medium as the third cross-sectional image data. The three-dimensional printing object is created based on the third cross-sectional image data.
US10007243B2
Fault isolation and service restoration in an electrical grid are provided. An approach for receiving a notification message including a state of an electrical component on an electrical grid, and determining, by a computing system, a command message including at least one action to take in response to the state of the electrical component, is described. The approach further includes sending the command message to at least one of the electrical component and other electrical components on the electrical grid.
US10007240B2
Management systems, methods, and mediums are provided. A method includes monitoring a value of a data point associated with a device in an automation system using a set of pairs of event enrollment objects and notification class objects configured to generate and communicate an alarm according to a first protocol. Each of the pairs of objects corresponds to one of a set of offsets defined according to a second protocol. The method also includes writing property values of the pairs of objects for different alarm monitoring modes using a set of command objects. Additionally, the method includes generating and communicating, in response to detecting the value for the data point meeting conditions in at least one of the event enrollment objects, an alarm according to a notification class object paired with the at least one event enrollment object.
US10007213B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator to fix an image on a recording medium, a pressure rotator to press against an outer circumferential surface of the fixing rotator, a nip formation pad disposed inside the fixing rotator and opposite the pressure rotator to form an area of contact between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, and a slide member disposed between the fixing rotator and the nip formation pad and applied with lubricant to slide the fixing rotator in a sliding direction. The slide member includes first strands disposed parallel to the sliding direction and second strands disposed perpendicular to the sliding direction and interwoven with the first strands. The first strands are woven over the second strands longer than the second strands woven over the first strands.
US10007210B2
A developing device includes a developer accommodating container, a developer carrier, an exhaust path, a capturing member, and a closing member. The developer accommodating container accommodates a developer. The developer carrier is disposed in an opening of the developer accommodating container to be rotated while facing an image carrier, and carries the developer. The exhaust path exhausts an air in the developer accommodating container to an outside. The capturing member captures a toner in the exhausted air passing through the exhaust path. The closing member includes a base end portion and a tip end portion. The base end portion is held by the developer accommodating container. The tip end portion is sandwiched between the developer accommodating container and the developer carried on the developer carrier, downstream of the opening in a rotation direction of the developer carrier. The closing member closes a gap.
US10007200B2
Core-shell toner particles with antimicrobial properties are described, the toner particles contain a metal ion nanoparticle in the shell.
US10007197B2
A sensor system configured to determine a position of a substrate having an edge. The sensor system includes a radiation source arranged to emit a radiation bundle, a reflective element, a detector device and a substrate table having a supporting surface for supporting the substrate. The supporting surface is at least partly along a plane. The radiation source and the detector device are arranged on a first side of the plane. The reflective element is arranged on a second side of the plane other than the first side. The reflective element is arranged to create a reflected bundle by reflecting the radiation bundle. The reflective element is arranged to illuminate the edge with the reflected bundle. The detector device is arranged to receive the reflected bundle.
US10007191B2
In some embodiments, a method may include improving a development process of a photoresist. The method may include simulating a negative-tone development process of a photoresist. The method may include determining a reaction of a developer with a soluble photoresist surface. Determining the reaction of the developer may include applying a reaction rate constant at a power of a reaction order to a blocked polymer concentration to yield a resist dissolution rate of soluble resist comprising the dissolution-limited regime of development. The method may include determining a flux of the developer into exposed and partially soluble resist. Determining the flux of the developer may include applying a vector valued diffusion coefficient of the developer dependent upon the blocked polymer concentration to a gradient of developer concentration to an expansion rate of insoluble resist comprising the expansion-controlled regime of development. The method may include optimizing an illumination source and a mask on a full chip.
US10007188B2
An exposure apparatus exposes a substrate with illumination light via a liquid. A liquid immersion member of the exposure apparatus has a lower surface, a plurality of collection ports, and a plurality of supply ports. The lower surface has an opening through which illumination light passes. The collection ports are arranged at the lower surface to surround the opening, and the supply ports are arranged at the lower surface and between the opening and the collection ports to surround the opening, such that the liquid is supplied via the supply ports onto the substrate while the substrate is arranged opposite to a plane-convex lens of a projection optical system and such that the liquid is collected via the collection ports from the substrate.
US10007183B2
The invention provides a compound for forming an organic film having a partial structure represented by the following formula (ii), wherein the ring structures Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 each represent a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring or naphthalene ring; e is 0 or 1; R0 represents a hydrogen atom or a linear, branched or cyclic monovalent organic group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; L0 represents a linear, branched or cyclic divalent organic group having 1 to 32 carbon atoms; and the methylene group constituting L0 may be substituted by an oxygen atom or a carbonyl group. There can be provided an organic film composition for forming an organic film having high dry etching resistance as well as advanced filling/planarizing characteristics.
US10007181B2
A chemically amplified positive resist dry film to be formed on a support film contains 5-40 wt % of a component having a boiling point of 55-250° C. under atmospheric pressure. The resist dry film having flexibility and dimensional stability can be prepared through simple steps. The resist dry film can be efficiently and briefly laid on an article and processed to form a pattern.
US10007173B2
A display processing device includes a focus control unit configured to control a focal length in at least a central area of a projection image in accordance with a user operation, the projection image being enlarged and projected from a projection optical system capable of setting the focal length of the projection image at a short range.
US10007170B2
Tunable monolithic cavity-based frequency converter pumped by a single-frequency laser where cavity resonance(s) are achieved by independently changing the temperatures of different sections of the crystal, including the periodically poled section and one or more adjacent, non-poled regions. Having independent control of the phase matching temperature and the cavity resonance for a down-converted beam increases the efficiency.
US10007168B2
A liquid crystal lens including a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second electrode disposed on the first substrate, a first conductive pattern disposed on the first substrate, a second conductive pattern disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a common electrode disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate is provided. The first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern are electrically connected between the first electrode and the second electrode. A resistivity of the first conductive pattern and a resistivity of the second conductive pattern are greater than a resistivity of the first electrode and a resistivity of the second electrode. At least a portion of the at least one second conductive pattern is disposed into the at least one first conductive pattern.
US10007163B2
An electrochromic multi-layer stack is provided. The multi-layer stack includes an electrochromic multi-layer stack having a first substrate, a first electrically conductive layer, a first electrode layer, an ion conductor layer, a second substrate, a second electrically conductive layer, and a second electrode layer. The multi-layer stack includes a redox element, wherein the redox element is electrically isolated from the first and second electrically conductive layers and the first and second electrode layer and is laterally adjacent to either the first electrically conductive layer and the first electrode, or the second electrically conductive layer and the second electrode layer. A method for controlling an electrochromic device is also provided.
US10007152B2
In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
US10007149B2
A method of manufacturing a photoalignment layer includes: applying a photoalignment agent including a copolymer of at least one of cyclobutanedianhydride and a cyclobutanedianhydride derivative, and diamine, and a crosslinking agent including an alkylene group having a formula —CnH2n—, wherein n is a natural number, on a substrate; pre-baking the photoalignment agent applied on the substrate to form a pre-baked photoalignment agent; hard-baking the pre-baked photoalignment agent to form a hard-baked photoalignment agent; irradiating the hard-baked photoalignment agent with a light source thereby photoaligning the photoalignment agent; and secondarily baking the photoalignment agent irradiated with the light source, where in the application of the photoalignment agent on the substrate, the photoalignment agent applied on an edge portion of the substrate is applied in about 30 to about 70 wt %, relative to the photoalignment agent applied on the center portion of the substrate.
US10007138B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film covering the semiconductor layer, a gate line extended in a first direction on the first insulating film to intersect the semiconductor layer, a second insulating film covering the gate line, a first common electrode formed on the second insulating film, a third insulating film covering the first common electrode, a source line which is extended in a second direction on the third insulating film and which is in contact with the semiconductor layer, and a fourth insulating film which covers the source line and which has a thickness greater than a thickness of the third insulating film.
US10007137B2
The present invention prevents an optical device from malfunctioning or receiving a reduced amount of light due to a foreign object adhering to or floating above a light receiving portion of the optical device. A metal frame (31) includes at least one protruding section (34) that protrudes toward an LCOS element (11).
US10007134B2
A display device is provided. The display device may include a display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate, a frame positioned behind the display panel, an optical layer positioned between the display panel and the frame, and a supporting film attached to the display panel and connected to the frame. The display device may also include a fastening device for fastening the supporting film to the frame. The display panel may include a front polarizing film attached to a front surface of the front substrate, and a back polarizing film attached to a back surface of the back substrate. The supporting film may be attached to the back polarizing film.
US10007130B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for optical switching. In some implementations, a magneto-optic switch includes multiple optical components positioned in order along a light path including: a single fiber optical collimator, a first birefringent optic crystal, a first half wave plate assembly, a polarization rotation assembly, a second half wave plate assembly, a second birefringent optic crystal, and a dual fiber optic collimator, wherein a first side of the polarization rotation assembly near the first half wave plate assembly includes a first Faraday rotator element, a second side of the polarization rotation assembly near the second half wave plate assembly includes an optic rotation component, the polarization rotation assembly having a magnetic field generating component outside the first Faraday rotator element.
US10007125B2
A device can comprise an outer frame, a platform, and a motion control mechanism. The motion control mechanism can be adapted to permit movement of the platform in a desired direction with respect to the outer frame and inhibit rotation of the platform with respect to the outer frame. An actuator can be contained at least partially within the motion control mechanism.
US10007122B2
The present disclosure provides a 3D display substrate, its manufacturing method and a 3D display device. The 3D display substrate includes a base substrate, a color filter layer arranged on the base substrate, and an optical structure layer arranged on the base substrate and at a light-exiting side of the color filter layer. The optical structure layer includes a first light-transmitting layer and a second light-transmitting layer having different refractive indices. An interface between the first light-transmitting layer and the second light-transmitting layer is of a concave-convex structure, so as to enable one of the first light-transmitting layer and the second light-transmitting layer to form a lens array structure for 3D display.
US10007118B2
A compact optical system with improved contrast for a head-worn computer includes a light source including a lens with positive optical power positioned within the head-worn computer and adapted to project converging illuminating light towards a partially reflective partially transmissive surface wherein the illuminating light forms a spot with an area smaller than the light source on the partially reflective partially transmissive surface prior to being reflected as diverging illuminating light that passes through a field lens and towards a reflective display. The illuminating light reflects off a surface of the reflective display, forming diverging image light which is transmitted through the field lens and then through the partially reflective partially transmissive surface to a lower display optical system adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer.
US10007113B2
In a motor vehicle, a display device has a display area displaying an image projected by an optical device by way of a reflection area as a virtual image. The optical device has at least one reflector and an actuator which moves the reflector. The actuator includes a shape memory material, which is designed to be deformed by a temperature-dependent phase transition and thereby move the reflector. By the provision of a thermal shape memory actuator that functions without an electric current, the optical path can be changed, so that overheating of internal temperature-sensitive components of the display device can be prevented in a way that is particularly inexpensive and efficient in terms of installation space and it is also possible to dispense with electronic sensing, evaluation and activation entirely.
US10007111B2
A mirror display device, which includes: a display panel; a first polarizer disposed on the display panel; and an optical structure disposed on the first polarizer. The optical structure includes: a first polarization conversion layer; and a second polarization conversion layer or a reflection layer, wherein the first polarization conversion layer is disposed between the first polarizer and the second polarization conversion layer or the reflection layer; wherein a sum of a first reflectance and a first transmittance of the optical structure is greater than 100% and less than 150%, in which the first reflectance is referred to a percentage of external light irradiating into the mirror display device and reflected by the optical structure, and the first transmittance is referred to a percentage of light passing through a first polarizer and then irradiating into and passing through the optical structure.
US10007110B2
Provided is a system for presenting information to a driver in a vehicle with a steering wheel and dashboard and/or windshield includes a first enclosure that supports a mobile device and a combiner glass (e.g., half reflective mirror) on the dashboard or windshield. A second bracket releasably attaches a tactile input device to the steering wheel. The tactile input device generates signals representing motion of the driver's finger or thumb across a touch pad and the actuation of an entry key of the device. The tactile input device and the mobile device communicate wirelessly, in preferred embodiments. The enclosure supports the mobile device to have an orientation with respect to the combiner glass that produces a heads-up display that can be controlled by the driver's interaction with the tactile input device. Advantageously, the present invention provides systems and methods that minimize visual, mechanical and cognitive distractions.
US10007104B2
An endoscope includes an outer shaft with a distal end whose surface is configured by a cylindrical mantle surface and a curved front surface, such that the distal end of the outer shaft includes a mantle component and a curved front component that is joined to the mantle component. A distance of an interface between the mantle component and the front component from an edge between the mantle surface and the curved front surface is no greater than a wall thickness of the mantle component or no greater than a wall thickness of the front component.
US10007097B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10007093B2
An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fifth lens element has both an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric.
US10007092B2
An optical lens assembly includes an aperture stop, a first lens element to a sixth lens element from an object side toward an image side along an optical axis. The third lens element has an object-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery, and an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The fourth lens element has an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The fifth lens element positive refractive power has an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its periphery. The thickness of lens elements T1, T2, T3, T4, T6 satisfies (T1+T2+T3+T4)/T6≤4.0.
US10007089B2
A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lenses along the optical axis include a first lens with refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with refractive power and a sixth lens with refractive power, and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US10007087B2
The invention discloses a three-piece optical lens for capturing image and a three-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; and a third lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the three lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10007083B2
A lens barrel of the invention is configured with a first barrel member, a second barrel member which rotates around an outer periphery of the first barrel member and which has a through hole between an outer peripheral surface and an inner peripheral surface, and a moisture permeable member provided so as to cover the through hole of the second barrel member.
US10007080B2
A telecommunications closure includes a base, a cover coupled to the base, and a first interior volume defined between the cover and the base. The cover includes a compartment having an opening and defining a second interior volume. The telecommunications closure also includes a flexible telecommunications line having a first end located within the first interior volume and a second end located outside of the first interior volume. The second end of the telecommunications line has a connector for coupling to other telecommunications lines. A portion of the flexible telecommunications line passes through the opening of the compartment. The telecommunications closure also includes at least one sealing member positioned in the second interior volume of the compartment to seal the flexible telecommunications line in the opening.
US10007078B2
An optical fiber ribbon is disclosed. The optical fiber ribbon includes first and second optical fibers arranged in parallel, and at least one coupling member made of a resin material. The coupling member couples the first and second optical fibers by adhering the first and second optical fibers each other intermittently in a longitudinal direction of the first and second optical fibers. A breaking elongation of the resin material constituting the coupling member is equal to or more than 200% and equal to or less than 500%.
US10007077B2
A system provides for a way for cooling an optical fiber. The system includes a coolant and a conduit. The conduit allows the coolant to flow through the conduit. At least part of the fiber passes through the conduit allowing the coolant to flow around the at least part of the fiber. In some configurations, the fiber runs parallel to the conduit. The system can include a pump diode that is part of an optical laser connected to an end of the fiber. The optical laser can further include a high reflector connected to the fiber and a partial reflector connected to the fiber to reflect some light back and forth between the high reflector and the partial reflector.
US10007074B2
Described herein are photonic systems and devices including a optical interface unit disposed on a bottom side of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to receive light from an emitter of the PIC. A top side of the PIC includes a flip-chip interface for electrically coupling the PIC to an organic substrate via the top side. An alignment feature corresponding to the emitter is formed with the emitter to be offset by a predetermined distance value; because the emitter and the alignment feature are formed using a shared processing operation, the offset (i.e., predetermined distance value) may be precise and consistent across similarly produced PICs. The PIC comprises a processing feature to image the alignment feature from the bottom side (e.g., a hole). A heat spreader layer surrounds the optical interface unit and is disposed on the bottom side of the PIC to spread heat from the PIC.
US10007069B2
A fiber optical connector comprises at least one fiber optical connector and a receptacle. The least one fiber optical connector comprises an outer housing, an inner housing, a plurality of ferrules, a plurality of compressible springs, a plurality of optical fibers, a supporting seat and a rear supporting assembly. The rear supporting assembly comprises a rear supporting tube, a ring, a pipe and a sleeve. The plurality of ferrules are provided in the inner housing and the inner housing is provided with outer latching portions at two sides of the inner housing; the rear supporting assembly further comprises a clamping collar, the clamping collar is sheathed on an outer surface of a rear segment of the pipe. The receptacle is provided with mating tubes in which the ferrules of the at least one fiber optical connector are correspondingly inserted. With such a configuration, the number of ferrules provided inside a single SC connector of the optical fiber standard specification is increased.
US10007065B2
An example device includes a first semiconductor component comprising at least two lasers to emit light at a first wavelength; a second semiconductor component comprising at least two lasers to emit light at a second wavelength, the first wavelength being different from the second wavelength; and an optical multiplexer to receive light from two lasers at the first wavelength and light from two lasers at the second wavelength. The optical multiplexer component includes a first output interface to couple light from one laser at the first wavelength and light from one laser at the second wavelength to a first optical fiber, and a second output interface to couple light from one laser at the first wavelength and light from one laser at the second wavelength beams to a second optical fiber.
US10007051B2
The present invention belongs to the field of display technology, and particularly relates to a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module comprises a light source and a light guide plate, the light source being arranged at a light incident surface side of the light guide plate and a light guide pattern comprising a gap being arranged on a rear surface of the light guide plate opposite to a light-exiting surface of the light guide plate, wherein the backlight module further comprises a reflector unit that is used for reflecting light passing through the gap of the light guide pattern arranged on the rear surface of the light guide plate back into the light guide plate, so that the reflected light exits from the light-exiting surface of the light guide plate.
US10007050B2
A light redirecting member includes an incidence surface; a first total reflection surface, two light guiding parts; two second total reflection surfaces disposed at respctivee end portions of the two light guiding parts such that a distance between the second total reflection surface and a virtual plane increases as the second total reflection surface extends from the end portions; and two emission surfaces. The virtual plane includes the optical axis and a first virtual line which intersects the optical axis and extends in an extending direction of the two light guiding parts, the two second total reflection surfaces being surfaces on which light which is incident on the incidence surface and directly reaches the two second total reflection surfaces is incident at an angle equal to or greater than a critical angle, the two second total reflection surfaces being configured to reflect the light.
US10007049B2
Disclosed herein is a quantum rod backlight module for a liquid crystal display. The quantum rod backlight module includes a quantum rod layer disposing at one side of a backlight source and comprising a plurality of quantum rods, wherein the major axes of the plurality of quantum rods are aligned along a direction parallel to a surface of the quantum rod layer; a first micro-prism layer including a plurality of first parallel strip-shape prisms, and a second micro-prism layer including a plurality of second parallel strip-shape prisms, wherein both of the alignment directions of the first parallel strip-shape prisms and the second parallel strip-shape prisms are perpendicular to the direction of the major axes of the plurality of quantum rods, and the retardations of the first micro-prism layer and the second micro-prism layer are zero.
US10007045B2
Fiber lighting systems and methods of switching light are disclosed. A system includes a light source and a switching device having an input that receives light from the light source, at least one output, and a microelectromechanical mirror disposed in an optical pathway between the input and the output. The mirror is repositionable to direct light from the input into the output. The system also includes a light diffusing fiber coupled to the output that emits light along its length and an electronic control unit that directs the light source to pulse the light at a frequency of 10 Hz-500 kHz and orient the mirror for directing the light to an output. The repositioning is synchronized with the pulsing such that the mirror is at a coupled orientation during a pulse and is repositioned between pulses.
US10007039B2
Multilayer optical interference filter for filtering light constructed by alternating materials having different refractive indexes, with layer thicknesses calculated in order to achieve a transmittance in accordance with the inverse of the Melatonin Suppression Action Spectrum.
US10007035B2
A head-mounted display including a first optical system is provided. The first optical system includes an image surface, a stop surface, a first optical stack disposed between the image surface and the stop surface and a second optical stack disposed between the first optical stack and the stop surface. The first optical stack includes a first optical lens and a partial reflector. The second optical stack includes a second optical lens and a curved multilayer reflective polarizer. A quarter wave retarder is disposed between the multilayer reflective polarizer and the partial reflector. The multilayer reflective polarizer and the partial reflector may be convex toward the image surface along orthogonal first and second axes.
US10007030B2
The invention is to provide a antireflective film having a moth-eye structure, which has sufficient antireflective performances, which exhibits excellent planar uniformity, and which can be manufactured by a simple method; a polarizing plate, a cover glass, and an image display device that have the antireflective film; a method for producing the antireflective film; a cloth for cleaning the antireflective film; a kit including the antireflective film and the cleaning cloth; and a method for cleaning the antireflective film. The invention provides a antireflective film which includes a plastic substrate; a infiltration layer; a antireflective layer including a binder resin and particles with an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm to 700 nm, in this order in an adjacent manner, in which the antireflective layer has moth-eye structures formed by the particles on the surface opposite to the infiltration layer.
US10007022B2
A ray inspection system used to be mounted in a container yard to inspect an object within a container is provided. The ray inspection system includes: a ray generator device configured to emit a ray, a ray receiving device configured to receive the ray, and at least one chamber for receiving the ray generator device and the ray receiving device therein. Each of the at least one chamber is configured to be a standard container or a chamber which has a same shape, a same size and a same structure as a standard container such that the ray inspection system is adapted to be stacked in the container yard.
US10007017B2
A proximity sensor core for a proximity sensor is provided. The core has a head portion extending across a width of the sheet of material and the head has a first length. First and second leg portions extend for a second length from the same edge of the head portion. Each of the first and second leg portions extend across a portion of the width of the head portion. First and second foot portions extend for a third length from the respective first and second leg portions. The first and second foot portions have the same width as the respective leg portions. The core has a first bend between each of the first and second foot portions and the respective first and second leg portions so that the first and second foot portions extend generally perpendicular to the respective first and second leg portions.
US10007007B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus suitable for detecting X-ray, the apparatus comprising: a first substrate comprising a plurality of first electric contacts; a first chip layer comprising a plurality of first chips, wherein each of the first chips comprises a first electrode and is bonded to the first substrate such that the first electrode is electrically connected to at least one of the first electrical contacts; a second substrate comprising a plurality of second electric contacts; and a second chip layer comprising a plurality of second chips, wherein each of the second chips comprises a second electrode and is bonded to the second substrate such that the second electrode is electrically connected to at least one of the second electrical contacts, wherein the first chip layer and the second chip layer are bonded to each other such that at least two second chips are bonded to a same first chip.
US10007005B2
A method of manufacturing a radiation detector according to an embodiment includes: forming a plurality of scintillator array columns, each of the scintillator array columns being formed by preparing a scintillator member that a thickness being smaller than a length and a width, the scintillator member having a first face, a second face, a third face, and a fourth face, and being cut from the third face along the second direction to form at least a groove that penetrates from the first face to the second face but does not reach the fourth face to have an uncut portion near the fourth face; stacking the scintillator array columns in the first direction with a space between each of adjacent two scintillator array columns, and filling a spacer material into the space; inserting a reflector into each space and each groove; and cutting the uncut portion.
US10007000B1
A laser diode firing circuit for a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device that includes an inductively coupled feedback system is disclosed. The firing circuit includes a laser diode coupled in series with a transistor, such that current through the laser diode is controlled by the transistor. The laser diode is configured to emit a pulse of light in response to current flowing through the laser diode. A feedback loop is positioned to be inductively coupled to a current path of the firing circuit that includes the laser diode. As such, a change in current flowing through the laser diode induces a voltage in the feedback loop. A change in voltage across the leads of the feedback loop can be detected and the timing of the voltage change can be used to determine the time that current begins flowing through the laser diode.
US10006994B2
A soil detection and planting apparatus. The apparatus includes a vehicle and a controller coupled to the vehicle. The apparatus further includes a planting device coupled to the vehicle, the planting device configured to plant seeds or plants into a soil material. The apparatus includes a ground penetrating radar sensor coupled to the vehicle. The ground penetrating radar soil sensor is configured to scan the soil material up to a designated depth beneath a surface of the soil material, wherein the ground penetrating radar soil sensor is further configured to provide a sensor feedback signal to the controller with respect to an intrinsic characteristic of the soil material. The controller is configured to instruct placement of a seed or a plant into the soil material based on the feedback signal.
US10006987B2
A radar device comprises at least one transmitter unit for transmitting a radar signal, at least one receiver unit for receiving a reflected radar signal, and a phase shift unit for producing a phase shift in the frequency modulated radar signal in response to a phase shift signal. The receiver unit comprises at least one filter unit for filtering the received signal and is arranged for resetting the filter unit in response to said phase shift signal, so as to avoid saturation of the filter unit due to the phase shift.
US10006981B2
According to examples of the presently disclosed subject matter, there is provided a system for estimating a source location of a projectile, comprising an optics an optics subsystem, a radar subsystem and a processor. The processor is adapted to use range and velocity measurements obtained from data provided by the radar subsystem, a source direction and an event start time obtained from data provided by the optical subsystem and a predefined kinematic model for the projectile for estimating a range to a source location of the projectile.
US10006979B2
In a magnetic resonance apparatus and a method and controller for operating such an apparatus, first and second diffusion-weighted image data are reconstructed from first and second diffusion-encoded raw data that were respectively acquired using different diffusion-encoding gradient pulse sub-sequences. The different sub-sequences differ by respectively having a different parameter that characterizes the respective sub-sequence as a function of time. The first and second reconstructed image data are compared and a deviation of the image data from normal Gaussian diffusion behavior is determined model-free on the basis of the comparison result.
US10006966B2
A battery voltage detection device includes a battery; a voltage detection circuit; and a low-pass filter provided between the battery and the voltage detection circuit. The low-pass filter includes a capacitor of which one end is connected to a terminal of the battery and the other end is connected to a voltage source outputting a voltage higher than a terminal voltage of the battery.
US10006963B2
A testbench, including a verification environment, tests a device under test (DUT). A packet tracking module, which is verification environment agnostic, is configured to track packets in the verification environment. The packet tracking module maintains an associative data structure of packet identifiers that are indexed by a unique value, a counter for identifying the packets in the verification environment, and a set of routines for tracking the packets in the verification environment during different stages of the testing.
US10006958B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a MOS analog circuit which has a high reliability and a low manufacturing cost, and in which latent failure is easily detected. The MOS analog circuit is switched to a test state or an operating state based on a control signal that is externally supplied. In the test state, a voltage between a power supply terminal and a reference terminal is applied to a gate oxide film of a MOS transistor included in the MOS analog circuit.
US10006954B2
A monitor system for monitoring the reliability of at least one piece of electronic equipment installed in an aircraft. In order to monitor each piece of electronic equipment, such a monitor system comprises: monitor means for measuring variations of at least one state parameter P as a function of time t; concatenation means for generating data groups (ti, Pi, Sj); transmission means for transmitting the data groups (ti, Pi, Sj) to a centralized unit; first computation means for determining an observed reliability Robs of the or each piece of electronic equipment; second computation means for determining an expected reliability Rexp of the or each piece of electronic equipment; comparator means for comparing the observed reliability Robs with the expected reliability Rexp of the or each piece of electronic equipment; and warning means.
US10006944B2
An optical sensor assembly that senses current in a secondary electrical cable while sensing voltage in a primary electrical cable. The optical sensor assembly may include a sensor body, a concentrator core for measuring current. The concentrator core may be attached to a first end of the sensor body. The optical sensor assembly may include a plurality of extension arms that extend from the sensor body. The extension arms may include clamping devices on one end that are configured to attach to a first electrical cable. The concentrator core may be configured to at least partially surround a second electrical cable and sense the current from that second electrical cable.
US10006940B2
Reliability of an electrical test of a semiconductor wafer is improved. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a step of performing an electrical test of a semiconductor element by allowing contact portions (tips) of a force terminal (contact terminal) and a sense terminal (contact terminal) held by a probe card (first card) to come into contact with an electrode terminal of a semiconductor wafer. In the step of performing the electrical test, the contact portions of the force terminal and the sense terminal move in a direction away from each other after coming into contact with the first electrode terminal.
US10006937B2
Capacitive sensor assemblies for electronic devices, and methods of forming capacitive sensor assemblies. The capacitive sensor assembly may include a top component having an intermediate layer formed on the top component, a bottom component positioned opposite the top component, a silicone layer positioned between the top component and the bottom component, and a first electrical trace positioned adjacent the silicone layer.
US10006927B2
A method of operating a laboratory automation system is presented. The laboratory automation system comprises a plurality of laboratory stations and a plurality of sample container carriers. The sample container carriers carry one or more sample containers. The sample containers comprise samples to be analyzed by the laboratory stations. The system also comprises a transport plane. The transport plane supports the sample container carriers. The system also comprises a drive. The drive moves the sample container carriers on the transport plane. The method comprises, during an initialization of the laboratory automation system, logically reserving at least one buffer area on the transport plane and, after the initialization of the laboratory automation system, buffering in the at least one buffer area sample container carriers carrying sample containers comprising samples waiting for a result of an analysis. Depending on the result of the analysis, the samples are further processed.
US10006926B2
A specimen inspection apparatus into which a specimen transporting apparatus is inserted, the specimen inspection apparatus including: a platform including an upper plate and a lower plate disposed to face each other and to be spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance; an injection part provided in the upper plate, a front end of the specimen transporting apparatus being inserted into the injection part; an introduction part connected to the injection part and provided between the upper and lower plate; and a plurality of stepped parts provided in the introduction part.
US10006924B2
This invention provides for an improved method for differentially diagnosing ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Current practice for differentially diagnosing ectopic ACTH syndrome and Cushing's Disease measures relative ACTH concentrations from the inferior petrosal venous sinus compared to fluid obtained from a periphery venous sample. This is performed before and after administration of exogenous corticotropin releasing factor, or after administration of metyrapone. This invention uses glucocorticoid receptor antagonists to induce release of endogenous CRH which stimulates ACTH to increase in patients with ectopic ACTH syndrome but not in those with Cushing's Disease.
US10006920B2
The present disclosure relates to a diagnostic kit capable of accurately diagnosing diseases or disorders related with abnormal aggregation or misfolding of proteins, including disorders or diseases caused by aggregation of β-amyloid such as Alzheimer's disease as well as disorders or diseases caused by aggregation of other proteins, based on concentration analysis of the aggregated proteins before and after dissociation.
US10006916B2
Some aspects of this invention provide reagents and methods for the sensitive, quantitative and simultaneous detection of target analytes in complex biological samples by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC MS/MS). Some aspects of this invention provide affinity reagents encoded with mass reporters for the sensitive and quantitative translation of an analyte of interest into a mass tag. The reagents and methods provided herein have general utility in analyte detection and encoding, for example, in biomolecular profiling, molecular diagnostics, and biochemical encoding.
US10006900B2
The present technology relates generally to devices to expose cells to fluid shear forces and associated systems and methods. In particular, several embodiments are directed toward devices to expose cells to fluid shear forces in order to measure changes in internal cell forces. In some embodiments, a fluidic device includes a flow unit configured to induce fluid flow through the device. The device further includes a fluid channel configured to accept a biological sample dispersed on an array of flexible structures. The flow unit can be configured to induce disturbed and/or laminar flow in the fluid channel. The device can further include optical or magnetic detection means configured to measure a degree of deflection of one or more flexible structures in the array.
US10006883B2
A particulate sensor (1) includes an ion source (15) and a reference potential member (45). The particulate sensor (1) detects particulates S contained in a gas under measurement EG by means of ions CP. The ion source (15) includes a ceramic structure (100) having a ceramic laminate (101) and a discharge electrode member (110). The discharge electrode member (110) has an inter-layer portion (112A, 111) embedded between the layers of the ceramic laminate (101) and an exposed portion (112B) extending from the inter-layer portion (112A, 111) to a position outside the ceramic laminate (101). The discharge electrode member (110) generates the gaseous discharge between the reference potential member (45) and the exposed portion (112B) including one or more needle-shaped distal end portions (1125) upon application of a constant DC discharge potential PV2.
US10006882B2
An example biosensor is provided and includes a semiconductor sensing element, a first electrode and a second electrode located on a first plane of the sensing element with a first electric field being applied thereacross, a third electrode located on a second plane of the sensing element parallel to and removed from the first plane with a second electric field being applied across the first electrode and the third electrode perpendicular to the first electric field, and a dielectric substrate having a first portion that constrains a fluid including an analyte on a surface of the sensing element, and a second portion that facilitates dielectric separation of the fluid from the electrodes. The mutually perpendicular electric fields facilitate adjusting a height of a fluid-sensor interface comprising an electrical double layer in the fluid enabling detection and characterization of the analyte.
US10006875B2
Embodiments of a nanotip sensor for detecting and identifying chemical or biological particulates in a sample are disclosed. The nanotip sensor may include a plurality of nanotips, each with a cathode, an anode, and a gap between the cathode and the anode. An adsorbed particulate from the sample may bridge the gap between the cathode and the anode, forming an electrical circuit. A conductive spectrum of the particulates in the sample that are adsorbed onto the nanotips of the sensor may be determined, and by comparing the conductive spectrum of the sample with conductive spectrums of known particulates, one or more specific particulates contained in the sample may be detected and identified. Techniques to augment the specificity of the sensor and to clean the sensor for re-use are disclosed. Embodiments of systems and methods that use the nanotip sensor to detect chemical and biological particulates are disclosed.
US10006871B2
Methods and apparatuses for the removal, analysis and/or detection of harmful airborne molecular contaminants (AMCs). In one embodiment, an ionizing radiation source is utilized to remove the harmful AMCs from a flow stream via radiolytic particle generation and subsequent capture by filtration. The captured particles may be released, for example, by re-gasification for analysis at much higher concentrations. In another embodiment, the ionizing radiation source is utilized with a particle detector to sense when harmful AMCs are present. In one embodiment, a solid optical medium is exposed to a monitored environment so that the AMCs are in contact with a surface of the solid optical medium. A focused light beam is arranged to emerge from a solid optical medium at an energy density sufficient to cause the AMCs to form deposits on the exposed surface of the solid optical medium, which can be detected using an interferometric technique.
US10006860B2
Both a hologram and fluorescence are simultaneously captured in a state in which they can be reconstructed separately. A recording device (10) includes: a laser light source (LS1) which irradiates a subject (13) with object illumination light so that object light is generated; and an image capturing device (12) which captures (i) a hologram formed by interference between reference light and object light and (ii) an image of fluorescence, and the object illumination light further excites a fluorescent material (14) contained in the subject (13).
US10006850B2
A particle detecting device includes: a chamber; an injection nozzle provided within the chamber; a discharge nozzle that is disposed within the chamber, opposing the injection nozzle; a detecting mechanism that illuminates a sample fluid that is sprayed from the injection nozzle and detects a particle included in the sample fluid; a pressurizing fluid pipe, connected to the chamber, for supplying a pressurizing fluid for pressurizing an interior of the chamber; and a rectifying member that rectifies the pressurizing fluid so that a flow speed distribution of a fluid between the injection nozzle and the discharge nozzle, rectified in an axial direction, is symmetrical in respect to the axial direction.
US10006847B2
An improved instrument for counting nanoparticles suspended in a gas, particularly in a combustion gas, incorporates a counter device such as a Condensation Particle Counter, incorporates a pre-treatment stage to remove substances which can cause nucleation and false results, comprising a flow through monolith carrying an oxidation catalyst and an absorber, wherein the monolith has a call density of no more than 400 cells per square inch and an open area of at least 80%.
US10006845B2
A device for evaluating the foaming property of a gas-soluble surfactant, which comprises a gas source part, an evaluating kettle, a liquid part, and an intermediate container part. The rotation of the evaluating kettle, the gas-soluble surfactant and the supercritical carbon dioxide can be sufficiently and evenly mixed with each other when the solubility of the gas-soluble surfactant in the supercritical carbon dioxide is measured.
US10006842B2
Provided is a simple method for producing a cell concentrate (other than human blood) in a short time with neither loss of cells nor an excessive burden on cells. Included is a method for producing a cell concentrate using an inside-out filtration system for processing a cell suspension, the system including: a cell suspension inlet port; a filtrate outlet port; a cell suspension outlet port; and hollow fiber separation membranes provided between the cell suspension inlet port and the cell suspension outlet port, wherein the membranes have a total cross-sectional area of 0.5-1.5 cm2, the membranes have an inside membrane area of 0.2 m2 or less, the suspension is flowed inside the membranes at a linear velocity of 500-1200 cm/min, and the quotient of the division of the initial filtrate flow rate from the filtrate outlet port by the flow rate into the cell suspension inlet port is 0.4-0.7.
US10006833B1
A method for optimizing size and position parameters of an array of vortex generator blades configured on an offset diffuser in an inlet of an aircraft engine. The method includes providing a computational fluid dynamic analysis of air flowing through the diffuser that identifies a height of a local boundary layer at a plurality of positions across the diffuser substantially parallel to the flow of air and a flow velocity vector at each of the plurality of positions at one half of a height of the local boundary layer. The method also includes determining an angle orientation of the blades using the boundary layer height and the flow vector, determining the length and height of the blades using the boundary layer height, and determining the number and spacing of the blades using the width of the diffuser.
US10006824B2
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) pressure sensors having a leakage path are described. Provided implementations can comprise a MEMS pressure sensor system associated with a back cavity and a membrane that separates the back cavity and an ambient atmosphere. A pressure of the ambient atmosphere is determined based on a parameter associated with movement of the membrane.
US10006816B2
Apparatuses and methods for indicating when a container has reached a predefined temperature are disclosed. An activatable temperature indicator can include a first indicator portion with a first material with a melting point, and a second indicator portion with a second material configured to change color when combined with the first material of the first indicator portion when the first material reaches the melting point. A separation member can be removeably positioned between the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion, and a biasing mechanism can be configured to bias the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion into contact when the separation member is removed. An attachment mechanism can also be used to place the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion into contact.
US10006815B2
A thermocouple including first and second thermoelements arranged to define a hot junction and a cold junction. A thermometer is coupled to at least one of the first and second thermoelements to measure the temperature of said cold junction independent of electronics used for conditioning a signal of said thermocouple. The thermoelements may be thick film elements coupled to a substrate. The thermometer may also be coupled to the substrate.
US10006810B2
A semiconductor sensor system, in particular a bolometer, includes a substrate, an electrode supported by the substrate, an absorber spaced apart from the substrate, a voltage source, and a current source. The electrode can include a mirror, or the system may include a mirror separate from the electrode. Radiation absorption efficiency of the absorber is based on a minimum gap distance between the absorber and mirror. The current source applies a DC current across the absorber structure to produce a signal indicative of radiation absorbed by the absorber structure. The voltage source powers the electrode to produce a modulated electrostatic field acting on the absorber to modulate the minimum gap distance. The electrostatic field includes a DC component to adjust the absorption efficiency, and an AC component that cyclically drives the absorber to negatively interfere with noise in the signal.
US10006802B2
The present invention provides a dispersing feed device including: a dispersion table adapted to receive articles supplied from above and to feed the articles to multiple sections on the periphery of the dispersion table; a first elastic unit inclinedly connected to the dispersion table, the first elastic unit having a first natural frequency; a second elastic unit connected to the dispersion table inclinedly in a direction different from the inclination direction of the first elastic unit, the second elastic unit having a second natural frequency which is different from the first natural frequency; and at least one vibrating source adapted to vibrate the dispersion table through the first and second elastic units.
US10006801B2
In an embodiment, a method for aircraft weight estimation is provided that includes determining a weight signal based on a dynamic pressure signal, a calibrated angle of attack signal, a lift coefficient signal, a load factor signal, and a wing surface area. In another embodiment, a method to estimate aircraft weight is provided that includes determining a weight based on historical flight data relating horizontal control surface position to dynamic pressure. In another embodiment, a system for continuously estimating aircraft weight during flight is provided that includes a pitot-static subsystem, an angle of attack indicator, an accelerometer, a controller configured to provide a weight signal, and a signal filter for filtering the weight signal to determine a stable aircraft weight.
US10006797B2
A level radar is switchable between pulsed and FMCW radar methods. For example, the radar device may include two separate front ends which can be activated selectively via a logic control system. Upon switching to the respective other measurement principle, the evaluation software is also adapted accordingly. In this way, it is possible to use advantageous properties of both measurement methods in a targeted manner.
US10006794B2
Disclosed are utilitarian and ornamental features of fluid flow meter housing technologies. Such housing technologies comprises removable covers where such covers are associated with the meter housings without using bolts to better distribute pressure across the surfaces of the flow measurement components inside the meter. Such configuration reduces measurement component deformation over time. Further disclosed are damping elements configured to reduce noise from the measurement elements disposed inside a fluid flow meter.
US10006782B2
A computing system located on-board a vehicle processes the input sensor data to obtain a downsampled representation of one or more time-series measurements. The computing system further identifies one or more characterization parameters to be reported as supplemental information along with the downsampled representation. The computing system processes the input sensor data to obtain a characterization value for each characterization parameter identified based on measurement conditions and communicates the characterizations based on a timing profile. The computing system formats the one or more characterization values to be reported along with the downsampled representation into one or more report messages. The computing system transmits the one or more report messages over a wireless wide area network directed to a server system. The one or more characterization values may be used by the server system as supplemental information in reconstructing the input sensor data from the downsampled representation.
US10006779B2
A transmission necessity determination apparatus configured to determine whether or not to transmit road-related data acquired by a vehicle-mounted system to a server from a vehicle includes: a stability acquisition unit configured to acquire a stability of the vehicle-mounted system for each position from the vehicle-mounted system; and a transmission necessity determination unit configured to determine whether or not to transmit the road-related data to the server from the vehicle based on at least one of the collection degree of the road-related data for each position on the map and the freshness of the road-related data for each position and the stability of the vehicle-mounted system for each position.
US10006778B2
A system includes a processor programmed to send first and second recommended routes to a wireless device in response receiving a present vehicle location stored when the vehicle was parked and also a received destination and departure time. The first recommended route is based on travel-time factors corresponding to the destination and departure time and specified routing and timing preferences. The second recommended route is based on a calculated alternative departure time using the specified preferences.
US10006777B2
A system and method of recognizing speech received at a vehicle includes: receiving speech from a vehicle occupant via a microphone; determining whether the speech relates to a point of interest (POI) or an address without receiving a POI command prompt or an address command prompt in the speech from the vehicle occupant; selecting a POI function or an address function based on the determination; and processing the received speech to identify a POI or an address.
US10006769B2
A terminal apparatus, a method and a system for setting up a destination and providing information are provided, in which the terminal apparatus includes a communicator which is configured to communicate with other terminal apparatuses, an input unit which is configured to receive a user command, a display which is configured to display a list including at least one item which corresponds to at least one of the other terminal apparatuses, and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to transmit destination information to a first terminal apparatus which corresponds to a selected item that is selected from among the at least one item included in the displayed list via the input unit. Accordingly, a user is provided with routes to the destination, without having to input address or name of the intended destination on his own terminal apparatus.
US10006768B2
A laser level including a housing. A laser generator assembly is housed in the housing and generates a laser beam. A projector projects the beam from the laser generator outside of the housing onto a target surface. The laser is a rotary laser and the projector rotates to rotate projection of the beam. The laser level also includes protective arms extending from the housing, the protective arms blocking projection of the beam along part of its path as the projector rotates. A width of the beam is at least twenty percent greater than a width of the leg where the beam contacts the leg.
US10006766B2
Some embodiments of the invention relate to an electrooptical distance measuring device comprising light source, reception circuit comprising detector, in particular avalanche photodiode APD and control and evaluation component for deriving a distance to the target object. Some embodiments of the invention, the detector has at least two mutually independent reception segments for mutually independently generating a respective resultant electrical signal, wherein the reception segments are assigned to predefined or predefinable, in particular different, distance ranges to be measured. Furthermore, at least two independent amplifiers may be provided in the reception circuit. Some embodiments of the invention, therefore, for a reception segment which is assigned only to a lower distance range of comparatively near distances, an amplifier having a comparatively low gain factor can now be connected downstream, such that it is therefore possible as a result to avoid e.g. a rapid supersaturation even in the case of near distances.
US10006762B2
To measure a three-dimensional shape of a measurement target object at high speeds, an information processing apparatus is configured to acquire an image captured while a pattern including first features and a second feature is projected onto the measurement target object; identify the first features in the captured image, and acquire an initial value of shape information on the measurement target object in an area including the first features; set a candidate for the shape information in a first area based on an initial value of shape information in an area surrounding the first area; decide an area in the pattern corresponding to the first area as a second area, and evaluate a correlation between the second area and the first area based on the second feature in the first area and the second feature in the second area; and derive the shape information in the first area.
US10006760B2
The invention relates to a modular passive refrigeration container for the cold storage and transport of goods, especially fresh produce and deep-frozen goods as well as to a method for the assembly of such a modular passive refrigerated container, comprising at least: (i) a cooling element, suitable for binary ice as coolant, comprising at least three plate-shaped hollow cooling segments, wherein the plate-shaped cooling segments define at least a portion of the refrigeration space, (ii) an insulation material in plate form, and (iii) a housing, suitable for receiving said cooling element and said insulating material in plate form, wherein said cooling element is removably surrounded by said housing, and wherein a space between the said cooling element and said housing is at least partially filled with said insulating material which is reversibly connected with either said housing or said cooling element or both.
US10006759B2
A butt position detecting method for a weld joint, when an arrangement direction of a first member and a second member is defined as a first direction, and a direction that is perpendicular to the first direction is defined as a second direction, the first member has a corner portion and a chamfer portion, and a two-dimensional displacement sensor is arranged at a position offset from the butt portion toward the first member side in the first direction, and such that an angle θs at which the second direction and an optical axis direction of irradiation light of the two-dimensional displacement sensor intersect with each other and an angle θa at which the second direction and a formation direction of the chamfer portion of the first member intersect with each other satisfy a condition expression: 0°<θs<θa.
US10006745B2
A threat detection system is disclosed. The threat detection system may also determine the location of the threat. The treat detection system may determine the threat attributes. The threat detection system may detect lasers.
US10006738B2
What is disclosed is an archery hand warming device that functions to keep a user's bow hand warm when grasping an archery bow. The device has a sleeve that fits over a user's forearm and two flaps that wrap around a user's hand when grasping the handle of a bow so as to shield a user's bow hand from the elements. The archery hand warming device utilizes a grommet or other opening typically located in one or both flaps which allows for the passage of a male threaded connector of a typical archery stabilizer to pass through and connect to the female threaded connector of an archery bow in order to mount or attach the archery hand warming device to the archery bow.
US10006729B2
A reduced stroke length telescopic recoil mechanism for a firearm having a barrel and a slide movable rearwardly with respect to the barrel during an initial part of a firing cycle, and forwardly during an ending part of the firing cycle, the recoil mechanism having a base, an axle fixed to the base, a central tube slidably mounted on the axle, an inner spring engaged between the base and the central tube for biasing the central tube forwardly away from the base, an outer tube slidably mounted with respect to the central tube, a central spring engaged between the central tube and the outer tube for biasing the central tube forwardly away from the base, and an outer spring engaged between the slide and the outer tube for biasing the slide forwardly of the base.
US10006724B2
Brazing sheet consisting of a series AA3xxx aluminum alloy core sheet, coated, on at least one side, with a cladding layer made of a first so-called intermediate aluminum alloy containing 0.35 to 1.8 wt % manganese, less than 0.3 wt % of each of other elements, and a total of 1 wt % balance aluminum, itself coated with a second series AA4xxx alloy cladding layer, in which the alloy of the core sheet is selected, and the core sheet developed, such as to have an essentially recrystallized structure after brazing.
US10006723B2
In order to improve sealing performance when the open end of a tank is swaged and thereby secured inside an annular groove the surface of which is formed in a substantially rectangular shape with a seal material between the groove an the tank, flange parts protrude in a fan shape at the four corners of the seal material, and those flange parts are pressed by the corner sections of the annular groove, thereby preventing the seal material from moving in the corner sections.
US10006716B2
The invention concerns a dental furnace, with a furnace base and with a furnace hood, wherein the furnace hood includes a firing chamber for the accommodation of dental restorations, with a temperature sensor that records the temperature of the dental restoration and which is connected to a control device which controls the dental furnace, and the dental furnace (10) includes a drive unit (18) for the furnace hood (16) and the control device (30) controls the drive unit (18) based on the temperature recorded by the temperature sensor (20), namely opens the furnace hood.
US10006707B1
A portable wig and cap drying stand for use with a portable electric hairdryer. The stand has a base which receives the bottom or fan section of the hairdryer and holds the nozzle of the hair dryer directed vertically away from the stand and towards a wig support. A hollow cylinder fits over the nozzle and connects the wig support to the base of the stand. The hairdryer is turned on for drying the wig or hat on the stand. When not in use, the stand may be compacted by removing or collapsing the cylinder, for portability and packability.
US10006701B2
A method for operating a natural gas liquids processing (NGL) system, the system being selectively configured in either an ethane rejection configuration or an ethane recovery configuration, the method comprising, when the NGL system is in the ethane rejection configuration, collecting a reboiler bottom stream that, in the ethane rejection configuration, includes ethane in an amount of less than 5% by volume, and when the NGL system is in the ethane recovery configuration, collecting a reboiler bottom stream that, in the ethane recovery configuration, includes ethane in an amount of at least about 30% by volume.
US10006689B2
An appliance including an ice manipulation reservoir capable of receiving ice having a base, wherein the base includes a first level and a second level, with the first level descending gradually to the second level. A first ice modification member is disposed inside the ice manipulation reservoir adjacent the first level of the base, and a second ice modification member is disposed inside the ice manipulation reservoir adjacent the second level of the base. A motor is operably connected with the ice manipulation reservoir and includes an output shaft. An impeller is connected with the output shaft proximate to the plurality of ice modification members, with the impeller being operable between a first directional rotation, and a second directional rotation.
US10006680B2
An evaporator with a cool storage function includes a plurality of refrigerant flow tubes. The flow tubes are spaced apart from one another in a thickness direction to form spaces among the plurality of refrigerant flow tubes. Outer fins are disposed in a first part of the spaces and are joined to the plurality of refrigerant flow tubes. The cool storage material container contains a cool storage material and is disposed in a second part of the spaces other than the first part. An inner fin is disposed within the cool storage material container and has crest portions extending along a longitudinal direction of the flow tubes, trough portions extending along the longitudinal direction, and connection portions connecting the crest portions and the trough portions.
US10006661B2
A furnace is disclosed. The furnace may include an enclosure having a vertical support column formed by a heat exchanger compartment panel and a blower compartment panel. The furnace may include a window assembly having venting openings hidden by a viewing window. The furnace may also include a rail to support a removable heat exchanger system. The furnace may further include a wire retaining fin assembly to retain a wire. A heat exchanger header design including features to retain a sealant is also disclosed.
US10006660B2
In a heat source apparatus in which an electric component having an electrode and an insulator is mounted on a side plate of a combustion box, in a state in which a packing is interposed between a flange portion of the insulator and the side plate, by fastening a clamp which overlaps with an outer surface of the flange portion, to the side plate, the temperature rise in the clamp is restrained.Upper and lower water tubes constituting a part of a water jacket are disposed on the side plate on upper and lower sides of the position of mounting the electrode component. In case the upper and lower water tubes are disposed on an inside surface of the side plate, the upper and lower parts of the clamp are brought into contact with those disposed positions of the water tubes which are in upper and lower portions of the side plate and, in case the upper and lower water tubes are disposed on an outside of the side plate, the upper and lower parts of the clamp are brought into contact with the upper and lower water tubes.
US10006654B2
A heating, ventilation and air conditioning (“HVAC”) controller has near field communication (“NFC”) capability and allows communications with an NFC-enabled PC, Tablet or Smartphone device, allowing initial configuration to be performed with or without building power being supplied to the controller. The NFC transmitted information is a subset of all the configuration settings, arranged in a particular order from most commonly changed to least commonly changed. After building power has been connected, firmware on the HVAC controller then combines the NFC transmitted initial configuration information with other stored or received configuration information so the HVAC controller properly communicates and carries out applications in the HVAC network and system.
US10006653B2
An air conditioning system includes air conditioning facilities with an indoor unit and an outdoor unit, a dedicated transmission line, a general-purpose equipment controller, and an energy management gateway. The energy management gateway includes a dedicated transmission line that enables communication with the air conditioning facilities via the dedicated transmission line, a management controller that collects management information preregistered for managing the air conditioning facilities from among various information received via the dedicated transmission line, and a processing controller that executes computational processing related to management of the air conditioning facilities on the basis of the collected management information, and controls the air conditioning facilities. The general-purpose equipment controller receives or accepts input of running information corresponding to each of the air conditioning facilities and general-purpose equipment, and controls the general-purpose equipment on the basis of the running information.
US10006650B2
An air blower enables cold-air dehumidification by removing moisture in summer, can supply instantaneous hot air when the room temperature temporarily goes down, enables hot-air humidification by supplying moisture in winter, enables a four-season use by using an additional humidification function in spring and fall, controls room temperature and room humidity by providing an indoor temperature/humidity sensor and a water temperature sensor, saves energy by intelligently operating and stopping all the functions, provides warning signs through lamps for indicating supply or discharge or lack of water with a high/low water level gauge of a water tank and a high water level gauge of a water tank for dehumidification, prevents safety accidents such as damage or conflagration and the like of components related to a fan driving motor by providing a fan driving motor overheating prevention sensor, prevents the leakage of water when a main body falls down.
US10006647B2
An air conditioning system may include an outdoor device disposed in an outdoor space, the outdoor device including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, a plurality of indoor devices disposed in an indoor space, the plurality of indoor devices including an indoor heat exchanger, and a distributor that distributes and introduces a refrigerant into the plurality of indoor devices. The outdoor device may include an outdoor branch branched into a plurality of refrigerant paths, a first outdoor tube that extends from the outdoor branch to guide the refrigerant to a first heat exchanger of the outdoor heat exchanger, a second outdoor tube that extends from the outdoor branch to guide the refrigerant to a second heat exchanger of the outdoor heat exchanger, and a bypass tube that extends from the outdoor branch to allow the refrigerant to bypass the outdoor heat exchanger, thereby guiding the refrigerant to the compressor.
US10006640B2
A regulator assembly which includes a housing for accommodating at least two regulators, wherein the housing has receptacles formed therein, into which the regulators can be inserted from an open side of the housing, where each receptacle has associated therewith retaining elements, which are positioned to elastically engage side faces of the regulator to be inserted into the receptacle so that the regulator is positioned and/or fixed in the receptacle.
US10006637B2
In some aspects, a gas turbine combustor assembly is arranged around a longitudinal axis. The gas turbine combustor comprises a first fuel/air mixer assembly, the mixer assembly comprising a first fuel injector and a plurality of first mixer elements, each mixer element defining an air flow passage therethrough having an outlet in a first plane. A second fuel/air mixer assembly comprises a second fuel injector and a plurality of second mixer elements, and each second mixer element defines an air flow passage therethrough having an outlet in a second plane, longitudinally offset from the first plane.
US10006630B2
The invention relates to a process for firing an industrial furnace, in particular for electricity generation, wherein coal or cokes together with a secondary fuel comprising cellulose and plastic, in the form of pellets of a size larger than about 3 mm thickness, and having a caloric value of about 16 GJ/ton or more is ground to a powder wherein about 95 wt % or more has a particle size smaller than 2 mm and wherein the d50 of the particle size distribution is between about 5 and about 100 μm, wherein the powder is injected in the flame of the furnace. In this process the grinding is performed in a roller mill or ball mill, and the amount of pellets used together with the coals preferably is about 3 wt % or more, relative to the coal.
US10006622B2
A scenographic light fixture for producing a light beam has a main body configured to produce a light beam along an optical axis; a control device facing the main body and comprising a mobile optical element to intercept and selectively deflect the light beam in a plurality of directions; and a support, at least in part transparent to the light beam, fitted to the main body to support the control device and so as to define a waterproof chamber wherein the optical element moves.
US10006621B2
A heat dissipation structure (2) for a lighting device (1), comprising: at least two separate heat sinks (20, 10) for a light source (3) and a driver (7) for the light source (1), respectively, each heat sink (20, 10) comprising fins (21, 22, 11) and a wall arrangement (15, 25), wherein said at least two separate heat sinks (20, 10) are disposed along an axial direction of the lighting device (1), wherein the fins (21, 22, 11) of said at least two separate heat sinks (20, 10) are enclosed by the wall arrangements (15, 25) to form a chimney structure (30) arranged along said axial direction of the lighting device (1), and wherein the chimney structure (30) comprises at least two sub-chimney structures (31, 32) arranged fluidly in parallel to provide two air flows simultaneously, which reduces heat concatenation.
US10006618B2
A housing for a luminaire is disclosed. The housing can include a housing top and a housing body coupled to each other. The housing body can include at least one wall that is bendable to form a cavity. The housing body can also include at least one first housing body coupling feature disposed on a first end, and at least one second complementary housing body coupling feature disposed on the first end adjacent to the at least one first housing body coupling feature. The housing body can further include at least one second housing body coupling feature disposed on a second end, and at least one first complementary housing body coupling feature disposed on the second end adjacent to the at least one second housing body coupling feature.
US10006613B2
A bar hanger member is provided. The bar hanger member is for assembling with another like-member by superposition thereon to form a bar hanger for supporting recessed luminaires. The bar hanger member includes: an elongated body having a front face and a rear face; a channel extending through the body along the lengthwise axis; and first and second protrusions extending from the body aligned with the channel. The first and second protrusions are sized and shaped for slidable engagement with the channel of the like-member. When the bar hanger is assembled with the like-member, the second protrusion of the bar hanger engages in the channel of the like-member and the first protrusion of the like-member engages in the channel of the bar hanger member.
US10006611B2
A hybrid light fixture housing comprising a roll formed or press fabricated metal housing substrate having ceiling interface side members formed from aluminum extrusion processes attached thereto. The ceiling interface side members may comprise a single extruded clip member configured to clip around the ends of the sidewalls of the housing substrate or a first backing bar piece secured to the housing substrate and a second ceiling trim member secured to the housing substrate and the backing bar.
US10006605B2
A wall wash lighting assembly is provided for a recessed light fixture mountable on a ceiling. The lighting assembly includes an optical assembly and a trim face plate connected thereto. The optical assembly has a first kicker reflector, a second kicker reflector and a light-shaping optical film. The first kicker reflector reflects light from a light source. The second kicker reflector reflects light received from the first kicker reflector toward an adjacent wall. The light-shaping optical film spreads light from the light source and the first and second kicker reflectors in a uniform light pattern in a target area, such as onto the adjacent wall or downward in a direction parallel to the adjacent wall. The trim face plate has a trim opening through which light is outputted onto the target area. The lighting assembly can employ detachable fasteners to allow for the interchangeability of the optical film and the trim face plate.
US10006604B2
A door assembly for a light fixture that includes a door frame formed of two opposing frame sides connected to two opposing frame ends that collectively form an opening and define a door frame plane. A reflector is positioned within the door frame to span the opening and to extend downwardly through the door frame plane such that at least a portion of the reflector extends below the door frame plane.
US10006602B2
The present invention comprises a semiconductor-type light source, a lens, a lens holder, and a heat sink member. Positioning sections are provided in the lens and the lens holder, respectively. The positioning section in the lens holder comprises a pressing section and a positioning surface. The positioning section in the lens comprises a protrusion-receiving section and a positioning protrusion section. As a result, the present invention is capable of accurately positioning the lens, relative to the lens holder, in the standard optical axis direction of the lens.
US10006600B2
Provided is an automotive lamp which forms a stereoscopic image by transmitting light of a light source through a lenticular lens. The automotive lamp includes: a light source; and a light pattern forming component which forms a plurality of light patterns by transmitting light emitted from the light source, wherein the light pattern forming component enables a light pattern of a different image to be observed based on a viewing angle, and light patterns of different images provide a continuous motion as the viewing angle changes sequentially in a specific direction.
US10006599B2
Lighting apparatus for a vehicle includes: night-time low beam light source which mainly illuminates a lower front region in front of the vehicle; and daytime light source which mainly illuminates an overhead region above the lower front region.
US10006595B2
The lighting attachment includes a casing, a flexible PCB (FPCB) disposed between inner and outer walls of the casing, a plurality of LEDs mounted along an edge of the FPCB, one or more rechargeable batteries mounted on the FPCB, a charging contact element arranged on the outer wall, a control means arranged on the outer wall, and a light guide mounted on a top end of the casing. The inner wall configured for receiving a cylindrical magnifying lens.
US10006593B2
A lamp system (10) includes a straight tube type lamp (13) and a socket (14). The straight tube type lamp (13) includes a straight tube type cover (20) containing a light-emitting element, and caps (23) arranged at both ends of the cover (20). A pair of lamp pins (30) whose tips respectively protrude in directions intersecting a lamp longitudinal direction are protrudingly provided on end faces of the caps (23) at both the ends. The socket (14) includes a socket body (41), a rotor (42) which is arranged in the socket body (41) and on which the pair of lamp pins (30) of the straight tube type lamp (13) are mounted, and a pair of terminals to which the pair of lamp pins (30) mounted on the rotor (42) are connected. At least the rotor (42) can move in the lamp longitudinal direction.
US10006591B2
The LED lamp has an enclosure defined by a housing and an optically transmissive exit surface. A base is connected to the enclosure. The housing is connected to the base at a proximal end and diverges as the housing extends away from the base to a distal end. The optically transmissive exit surface is connected to the distal end of the housing. A LED board is positioned transversely to a longitudinal axis of the enclosure adjacent the distal end to define a first interior space and a second interior space. A passage communicates the first interior space with the second interior space. A first aperture and a second aperture in the enclosure communicate the first interior space and the second interior space with the exterior of the lamp.
US10006587B2
A method for condensing argon can include two flow streams interacting with each other in a heat exchanger found within a cold box: a stream of gaseous argon enters the heat exchanger to be cooled down below its liquefaction point by a stream of pressurized liquid nitrogen entering the heat exchanger. While passing through the heat exchanger, gaseous argon is gradually cooled down until it is condensed into liquid, flowing by gravity to the nearby liquid argon storage tank.
US10006584B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention are directed to an adjustable retaining bracket that can be secured to a surface and adjusted in a first elevational direction relative to the surface, in a second direction along an axis substantially perpendicular to the first elevational direction and towards or away from the surface and in a third direction substantially perpendicular to the second direction. The adjustable retaining bracket may include a base brace and at least one adjusting bolt configured to secure the adjustable retaining bracket to the surface. The adjustable retaining bracket may also include an outer tube operationally engaged with the base brace and an adjusting rod configured to move the outer tube along the third direction, and an inner tube in telescoping relationship with the outer tube and configured for movement relative to the outer tube along the second direction.
US10006583B2
The present disclosure discloses a display module support frame and a display device. A display module support frame includes a machine support that is detachably connected to a display module. The machine support includes a horizontal supporting beam, two vertical supporting beams and two auxiliary supporting beams. The two vertical supporting beams are parallel, and face to each other. One end of each of the two vertical supporting beams is fixedly connected to the horizontal supporting beam. One end of each of the auxiliary supporting beams is fixedly connected to the horizontal supporting beam, and the other end thereof is fixedly connected to the vertical supporting beam.
US10006579B1
Embodiments for a cryohead heat transfer coupling as well as methods for extracting heat from an article using these couplings are provided. Couplings employ a component made from a material having a greater mean thermal coefficient of expansion than the mean thermal coefficient of expansion of other coupling components and of the article. As a result, differential contraction during cryocooling contributes a shrink fitting of a portion of the coupling resulting in enhanced thermal conduction when cooling and a releasing of the coupling when ambient temperature is restored.
US10006576B2
Various systems, methods, and apparatuses provided herein relate to quick connect and disconnect adaptor systems. The system includes a male member having a locking collar, a pin attached to the locking collar, and a locking mechanism; a female member selectively coupled to the male member, the female member having a locking device and a body defining a groove; wherein the locking collar of the male member at least partially surrounds the body of the female member when coupled to facilitate the groove receiving the pin and the locking mechanism to engage with the locking device.
US10006560B2
A solenoid valve drive control device includes a switching device that provides and interrupts the application of the electric current to the solenoid, a first device that controls the application of the electric current to the solenoid by the switching device to start the application of the electric current to the solenoid at zero cross timing in a power supply period, and a second device that detects a value of an electric current that flows to the solenoid. The application of the electric current to the solenoid is interrupted when the detected value of the electric current reaches a predetermined value, after the zero cross timing. A holding power is generated by discharging energy accumulated in the solenoid through a snubber circuit until another zero cross timing subsequent to the zero cross timing after the application of the electric current to the solenoid is interrupted.
US10006559B2
A valve device includes: a body including a gas passage through which gas flows and an accommodation recess that communicates with the gas passage; a valve mechanism that controls flow of the gas flowing through the gas passage; and a cover fixed to the body such that the cover covers the accommodation recess. In the valve device, the cover includes a cover recess that opens toward the accommodation recess, and the valve mechanism is assembled to the body such that the valve mechanism is accommodated in the accommodation recess with a portion of the valve mechanism protruding from the accommodation recess and the portion of the valve mechanism is accommodated in the cover recess.
US10006557B2
A fluid control system has a first series of connected circuit boards that each actuate a respective valve unit mounted to a manifold block. A first communication module has a valve driver with a plurality of outputs for actuating the valve units connected to the first series of connected circuit boards. A serial control line extends through the first series of connected circuit boards and is connected to a second driver for actuating a second series of connected circuit boards.
US10006556B2
A motion enhancing mechanism assembly suited for use with fluid control devices such as a piezoelectric modulating actuator of a proportional control valve. Range-limited axial motion of the actuator is transmitted through an amplifier disc to cause tilting of a control plate initially in sealing registration with an orifice ridge surrounding a fluid conduit aperture. Tilting of the control plate opens a wedge-like gap through which fluid may flow with larger conductance than is available with a planar gap of uniform height otherwise achievable with the range-limited motion of the actuator.
US10006553B2
A vent valve comprises a valve housing defining a vent port and a valve member mounted within the housing so as to define a fluid system chamber and an activation chamber with the housing. The valve member is biased towards a closed position, in which fluid communication between the fluid system chamber and the vent port is prevented, by fluid pressure within the fluid system chamber acting on the valve member. The valve member is biased towards an open position, in which there is fluid communication between the fluid system chamber and the vent port, by fluid pressure within the activation chamber acting on the valve member. The vent valve further comprises a pressure limiting arrangement associated with the activation chamber to limit pressure therein to a predetermined pressure value.
US10006550B2
A plug member of gas valve has an axial bore, a first bore, and a second bore, wherein the first bore and the second bore are located in a radial direction of the plug member, and communicate with the axial bore, respectively. A diameter of the first bore is larger than that of the second bore. A first guiding slot and at least one first oil groove are recessed into the outer peripheral surface of the plug member, wherein the first guiding slot has a first end communicating with the first bore, and a second end near the second bore without physically communicating with the second end. The at least one first oil groove is near the second end of the first guiding slot without physically communicating with the first guiding slot or the second bore. Whereby, the first oil groove provides space for receiving lubricant.
US10006549B2
A valve arrangement including a valve body and a valve seat each having an opposed surface, the valve arrangement also includes a high-frequency cyclic actuator to move the valve body with respect to the valve seat to bring the opposed surfaces into and out of abutment, characterised in that the opposed surface of at least one of the valve body and the valve seat includes a resiliently displaceable surface.
US10006540B2
A method of setting a reference position of an actuator in an automated manual transmission includes: performing Hall signal comparison by comparing, by a controller, a signal value of Hall sensors with a reference signal value; performing first movement by moving, by the controller, a finger of the actuator to a first end in a shifting direction by a preset distance if the signal values are identical; performing a first selection checking by checking whether selecting operation is enabled; performing a second movement by moving the finger to a second end in the shifting direction by a distance that is twice the preset distance if selecting operation is not enabled; performing a second selection checking by checking whether selecting operation is enabled; and performing a third movement by moving the finger to the first end in the shifting direction by the preset distance if selecting operation is not enabled.
US10006537B2
A gear motor series has two pinions with different numbers of teeth (z1a, z1b), and several toothed wheels with different numbers of teeth (z2a, z3a, z4a). The pinions and the toothed wheels are designed such that each pinion, in several predetermined axial distances (a), can be paired with one of the toothed wheels in order to form a first gear stage. One individual toothed wheel is provided for each predetermined axial distance (a), which is embodied such that it can be optionally paired with the one pinion or with the other pinion to form a first gear stage.
US10006531B2
A hydrokinetic torque coupling device comprises a casing rotatable about a rotation axis, a torque converter including an impeller wheel and a turbine wheel disposed in the casing coaxially with the rotation axis, a locking piston including an annular piston body and a plurality of drive teeth unitary with the piston body, and a torsional vibration damper comprising a input member non-rotatably coupled to the drive teeth of the locking piston, elastic members and an output member elastically coupled to the input member trough the elastic members. The locking piston is axially moveable so as to selectively engage the locking piston against the casing. The input member has window-shaped mating openings complementary to each of the drive teeth. The drive teeth drivingly engage the mating openings of the input member so as to non-rotatably couple the locking piston and the input member.
US10006523B2
A compact power unit with a sufficient clearance between a stud bolt and a fixing shaft of a cam chain tensioner pivot mechanism for supporting a cam chain tensioner guide. The power unit including a crankshaft, a stud bolt configured to fix a crankcase and a cylinder body to each other, a cam chain, a cam chain tensioner mechanism including a cam chain tensioner guide, and a cam chain tensioner pivot mechanism including a pivot plate, a fixing shaft, and a swinging shaft, the fixing shaft and the swinging shaft are arranged so as to straddle the axis of the stud bolt as viewed in the axial direction of the crankshaft.
US10006521B2
The present disclosure provides a planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle. The planetary gear train may include: an input shaft receiving torque from an engine; an output shaft outputting changed torque; a first planetary gear set including a first rotation element, a second rotation element, and a third rotation element; a second planetary gear set including a fourth rotation element, a fifth rotation element, and a sixth rotation element; a third planetary gear set including a seventh rotation element, an eighth rotation element, and a ninth rotation element; a fourth planetary gear set including a tenth rotation element, an eleventh rotation element, and a twelfth rotation element. The planetary gear train may improve power delivery performance and reduce fuel consumption by providing ten forward speeds utilizing reduced components and also improve silent driving.
US10006519B2
The present invention relates to a toothed belt containing tooth parts that are disposed at predetermined intervals along a belt longitudinal direction, a cord, and a back side that has the cord embedded therein, in which the cord contains a Lang-twisted glass fiber, an adhesion treatment layer, and an overcoat treatment layer, the overcoat treatment layer is formed on a surface of the adhesion treatment layer, the back side is composed of a rubber composition, and the rubber composition contains from 5 parts by mass to 20 parts by mass of a plasticizer based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component.
US10006516B2
A shock absorber including an inner assembly and a composite base assembly is disclosed. The inner assembly includes a pressure tube extending between first and second ends, a rod guide disposed adjacent to the first end, a compression valve disposed adjacent to the second end, a piston assembly disposed in the pressure tube between the rod guide and the compression valve, and a rod operatively attached to the piston assembly and supported by the rod guide. The composite base assembly defines a chamber for at least partially accommodating the inner assembly that terminates at a floor. The composite base assembly has a lower element disposed adjacent to the floor for at least partially engaging the second end of the pressure tube. The lower element defines at least one gap for facilitating fluid communication between the pressure tube and the chamber.
US10006506B2
An anti-rotational system is provided comprising a pawl carrier mounted for rotation within a ratchet, the pawl carrier having an axis of rotation, a pawl pivotably mounted to the pawl carrier on a pivot joint, the pawl having a contact portion and a counterweight portion, wherein the pivot joint is between the contact portion and the counterweight portion, wherein the counterweight portion is configured to be radially inward of the contact portion in response to rotation of the pawl carrier in a first rotational direction at an angular velocity less than a predetermined angular velocity.
US10006498B2
A work vehicle drive assembly has a bimodal clutch module that includes a pressure plate, a module housing containing first and second cavities located on opposing sides of the pressure plate, and an actuator. The actuator is controllable to move the pressure plate along a working axis of the clutch module. A clutch member is installed in a selected one of the first and second cavities. The clutch member is (i) engaged by movement of the pressure plate along the working axis in a first direction when the clutch member is installed in the first cavity and (ii) disengaged by movement of the pressure plate along the working axis in the first direction when the clutch member is installed in the second cavity.
US10006494B2
This torque transmission mechanism (1) includes a transmission mechanism portion (2) that includes an input shaft (21), an output shaft (22), and an intermediate portion (23) including a connection portion (23b). The torque transmission mechanism includes a limiting mechanism portion (3) that is capable of switching between a connection state where the limiting mechanism portion is connected to the connection portion and limits rotation of the intermediate portion and a disconnection state where the limiting mechanism portion is disconnected from the connection portion and allows the rotation of the intermediate portion, and switches to the disconnection state when torque of at least a predetermined value acts in the connection state.
US10006492B2
A vacuum pump comprises: a bearing device; and an exhaust function including a rotary body supported by the bearing device and configured to exhaust gas. The bearing device includes a bearing having an outer ring, an inner ring, and a rolling body, a lubricant storage configured to store lubricant, a lubricant supply structure configured to supply, to the bearing, the lubricant stored in the lubricant storage, a holding member configured to hold the bearing, and a porous body disposed outside the outer ring of the bearing and filled with the lubricant supplied from the lubricant supply structure to the bearing.
US10006489B2
A method for compensating at least one low-frequency mechanical disturbance oscillation, which is caused in a rotor of an active magnetic bearing by the action of a disturbance force on the rotor is provided. The mechanical disturbance oscillation has a disturbance oscillation frequency below a rotational frequency of the rotor. The method includes the following steps: a) analyzing the low-frequency mechanical disturbance oscillation, b) determining a compensation force for producing in the rotor a mechanical compensation force that counteracts the mechanical disturbance oscillation, and c) applying the compensation force to the rotor, wherein steps a), b), and c) are performed by means of at least one compensation control circuit of the active magnetic bearing that is decoupled from a magnetic-bearing control circuit for controlling the active magnetic bearing. The invention further relates to a corresponding active magnetic bearing.
US10006484B2
There is provided a slide bearing capable of preventing or reducing a temperature increase in lubricant. A cylindrical main bearing is formed by combining a pair of upper bearing and lower bearing and rotatably supports a crank journal. The lower bearing includes a downstream crush relief formed at a downstream end in the rotation direction of the crank journal in an inner periphery of the lower bearing; and an oil groove formed in the inner periphery of the lower bearing so as to communicate with the downstream crush relief.
US10006483B2
A bottom bracket for a bicycle may include a left bearing cup and a right bearing cup, the two bearing cups configured to be threaded together within a bottom bracket shell. Threading the bearing cups together may result in an axial force being applied to a resilient ring disposed on one of the bearing cups. This axial force may cause an outer diameter of the resilient ring to expand against an inner surface of the bottom bracket shell, thereby effectively locking the bottom bracket into the shell.
US10006481B2
A boss for a self-tapping screw includes a main body having an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, a plurality of reinforcing ribs connected with an outer peripheral surface, and a plurality of inner wall portions extending parallel to the central axis. Each of the plurality of inner wall portions are disposed at a portion of the inner peripheral surface opposite to a corresponding one of the plurality of reinforcing ribs across the main body. Each of the plurality of inner wall portions includes a specific portion opposite to the corresponding one of the plurality of reinforcing ribs across the main body. The specific portion is closer to the central axis than other portions of the each of the inner wall portions.
US10006476B2
An actuator assembly includes a housing, an internal cavity within the housing configured to partially contain a pressurized fluid, a fluid inlet port connecting a first opening on an outer surface of the housing to the internal cavity, a fluid outlet port connecting a second opening on the outer surface of the housing to the internal cavity, and a pressure relief channel having a relief inlet and a relief outlet. The relief outlet is in fluid communication with the internal cavity and a distance between the fluid inlet port and the relief outlet is less than half a distance between the fluid inlet port and fluid outlet port.
US10006475B2
An actuator comprises an axially moveable piston coupled to a drive member such that axial movement of the piston 16 drives the drive member for angular movement, the drive member being coupled via a clutch to an output member, the output member further being coupled by way of a cam arrangement with an override actuator, the cam arrangement being operable such that initial angular movement of the override actuator relative to the output member can drive the output member for axial movement, disengaging the clutch, further movement of the override actuator driving the output member for angular movement.
US10006474B2
A flow passage unit of a switching valve includes an energy-saving valve mechanism provided in a second flow passage of a flow passage body. The energy-saving valve mechanism has a movable body including a piston section and a valve member, and an elastic member that biases the movable body elastically. At a time that compressed air is supplied to the second flow passage, when a force that acts on the piston section based on the pressure of a first flow passage becomes smaller than a biasing force of the elastic member, due to the biasing force of the elastic member, the movable body is moved to a valve-closed position for blocking the second flow passage.
US10006472B2
A construction machine includes: a swing structure (50); a hydraulic pump (1); a hydraulic motor (3) for driving the swing structure (50) using hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump (1); an electric motor (14) for driving the swing structure (50) with or without the aid of the hydraulic motor (3); and a hydraulic actuator (16) driven by the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump 1, the hydraulic actuator can be operated together with the swing structure (50). When the swing structure (50) is operated together with the hydraulic actuator (16), only the electric motor (14) is used to swing the swing structure (50).
US10006467B2
A fluid-flow machine includes: a main flow path boundary and at least one row of relatively rotating blades with a gap existing between blade ends and the main flow path boundary. At least one secondary flow duct having one opening each is provided in the main flow path boundary at ends spaced apart in the flow direction, such that the secondary flow duct is connected to the main flow path via the two openings. The structural assembly has at least one support component and at least one insertion component. The support component includes a recess extending in the circumferential direction that receives the at least one insertion component such that the support component surrounds the at least one insertion component largely on its sides not facing the main flow path, and where the insertion component completely surrounds or forms at least one secondary flow duct.
US10006466B2
A seal ring for use between an integrally bladed rotor and a hub rotor of a compressor section of a gas turbine engine includes an arm configured to be positioned between the integrally bladed rotor and the hub rotor, such that the seal ring is removably coupled to the integrally bladed rotor and the hub rotor in response to a compressive force applied to the arm by the integrally bladed rotor and the hub rotor. The seal ring also includes a first blade coupled to the arm and configured to form a seal between a first volume and a second volume.
US10006465B2
A high-speed, single-stage, motor-driven blower designed to move water vapor includes an axial flow compressor and a rotating assembly supported by gas foil bearings and driven by a brushless permanent magnet synchronous motor utilizing a remotely mounted variable frequency drive. The blower is immersed in a water vapor flow for operation. Accordingly, the blower comprises an outer blower housing and an inner blower housing defining an annular cavity therebetween, wherein the inner blower housing is held within the outer blower housing by seals, and contains and protects the motor components and the bearings against water damage and contamination. A cooling flow may be leaked through the inner blower housing to cool the internal operational components of the blower and to capture heat therefrom, which can be added to the water vapor flow moving through the blower.
US10006464B2
A blower for use to provide combustion air to a fire (e.g., to assist in the lighting of a fire). The blower may include a cylindrical housing having an inlet opening and an outlet opening with a bore extending between the inlet and the outlet. A fan and power source may be provided to induce air flow from the inlet opening and through the bore such that air is expelled from the outlet opening. The outlet air exiting the outlet opening may travel in a direction substantially parallel with a central axis of the cylindrical housing. The blower may be supported by an infinitely adjustable flexible member that may be manipulated to position the blower with respect to the fire to provide outlet air to the fire. The flexible member may be engaged with a clip to attach the blower to a structure adjacent to the fire.
US10006442B2
A drive train includes a gearbox having a gearbox housing, and a generator having a generator housing. A lubricating oil system including an oil reservoir lubricates toothed contact areas and/or bearings which are arranged within the gearbox housing. The oil reservoir is arranged within the generator housing or on an exterior side of the generator housing.
US10006440B2
A method of operating a variable speed wind turbine as a function of a wind speed is disclosed. The method comprises following a power curve describing the operation of the wind turbine as a function of wind speed in steady-state conditions. The method further comprises changing the pitch angles of the blades in transient conditions in which the wind turbine cannot follow the power curve in the second operational range.
US10006437B2
A method for operating a wind power plant having at least one rotor blade, the blade angle of which can be adjusted. The wind power plant is operated with a predefinable reduced energy output set point. To determine the potential output, at least one predefinable operating parameter of the wind power plant is measured and is applied to at least one stored characteristic curve for the reduced energy output set point. The actual energy output is determined and the loss in the output is formed from the difference between the potential output and the actual energy output.
US10006436B2
Rotor blades for a wind turbines include a structural support member disposed internal the rotor blade that extends for at least a portion of a rotor blade span length and an airfoil structure supported by the structural support member, the airfoil structure comprising a shell portion and at least one load-transferring exterior panel. The shell portion and the at least one load-transferring exterior panel combine to form an aerodynamic profile comprising a leading edge opposite a trailing edge and a pressure side opposite a suction side. Moreover, the shell portion and the at least one load-transferring exterior panel are independently connected to the structural support member.
US10006432B2
A method of responding to a detected blowout in a coil ignition system is provided in this disclosure. The method includes receiving a characteristic regarding operation of a coil ignition system; determining a blowout condition exists for the coil ignition system based on the characteristic; and providing a command to the coil ignition system based on the determination that the blowout condition exists, wherein the command is structured to reduce a residual charge amount in the coil ignition system.
US10006431B2
A semiconductor apparatus is provided, comprising a power semiconductor element which is connected between a first terminal on a high-potential side and a second terminal on a low-potential side and is controlled to be turned on or off according to a gate potential, a cut-off condition detection section which detects whether or not a control signal that is input from a control terminal and controls the power semiconductor element satisfies a predetermined cut-off condition, and a cut-off circuit which controls the gate potential of the power semiconductor element to be an OFF potential in response to the cut-off condition detection section detecting that the cut-off condition is satisfied, and the cut-off condition detection section has an input terminal connected to the first terminal and the control terminal, and uses an electrical signal input from the input terminal as a power source.
US10006430B2
A control device of a vehicle including an engine, an electric motor, and a clutch disposed on a power transmission path between the engine and the electric motor, the control device of a vehicle performing an ignition start causing combustion in a cylinder of the engine to rotate the engine at a start of the engine, the control device of a vehicle switching a cylinder in which combustion is first caused in the engine based on an actuation during a rotation stop process of the engine of an exhaust valve in a cylinder stopped in an expansion stroke, when performing the ignition start at the start of the engine.
US10006429B2
A fuel injector includes a housing defining a longitudinal bore having a proximal end and a distal end, a high pressure fuel duct in communication with the longitudinal bore and a valve seat including a valve seat surface and an aperture at the distal end of the longitudinal bore. A poppet valve is disposed in the longitudinal bore and includes a valve head that is engageable with the valve seat surface. An actuator device is disposed at the proximal end of the longitudinal bore and a hydraulic coupler is disposed between the actuator and the poppet valve within the longitudinal bore. The hydraulic coupler defines a chamber that receives low pressure fuel for providing a hydraulic lash adjuster between the actuator and the poppet valve.
US10006422B2
A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The fuel injector is installable in a cylinder head bore of a cylinder head of the engine and has a body region arranged to be received within the cylinder head bore, and a head region arranged to extend outside the cylinder head bore to protrude from the cylinder head when the injector is installed in the cylinder head bore. The injector includes a first valve needle arranged to control the injection of a gaseous fuel from a first outlet, a second valve needle arranged to control the injection of a liquid fuel from a second outlet, a gaseous fuel inlet for admitting the gaseous fuel to the injector, and a liquid fuel inlet port for admitting the liquid fuel to the injector. The gaseous fuel inlet is disposed in the body region of the injector, and the liquid fuel inlet port is disposed in the head region of the injector. The injector can also include an internal accumulator volume so that an external fuel rail is not necessary.
US10006421B2
A fuel filter for a diesel engine may include an upper cover forming inflow and outflow passages of diesel fuel, a housing integrally mounted in a vehicle body, coupled to the upper cover and housing a filter assembly, and a body penetrating a central portion of the filter assembly, disposed between the upper cover and the filter assembly and integrally forming the upper cover, a heater assembly, and a moisture sensor, in which the heater assembly may be configured to selectively operate according to a detection signal of a fuel temperature sensor that is provided in the engine body.
US10006417B2
An adaptive air intake joint for an internal combustion engine comprising a molded elastomeric duct body having standing ribs constructed and arranged to provide a continuous and sufficient contact force across the face of a joint of an adjoining duct body. A clamp secured to the duct causes the ribs to provide a continuous and sufficient contact force across a seal surface, eliminating the need for constant tension clamp and improving the air intake joint seal to prevent leakage that is especially common in cold environments.
US10006411B2
A processor may perform a purging process, which may introduce fuel vapor adsorbed by a canister into an intake passage. The processor may identify clogging of a purge passage based on a decrease amount of the pressure in the canister that results from execution of the purging process. The processor may open an isolation valve when the pressure in a fuel tank is less than or equal to a first pressure, which is less than an atmospheric pressure, and close the isolation valve when the pressure in the fuel tank is greater than or equal to a second pressure, which is greater than the first pressure and less than the atmospheric pressure. The processor may disable the purging process at least in a period from when the processor closes the isolation valve to when a prescribed time has elapsed from the closing of the isolation valve.
US10006405B2
A thrust reverser system and operation suitable for turbofan engines. Blocker doors of the thrust reverser system have stowed positions in which each door is disposed between a fixed structure and a translating cowl of the engine. The translating cowl is translated in an aft direction of the engine to define at least one opening with the fixed structure, after which the translating cowl is further translated aft to deploy linkage mechanisms that are received in slots recessed into the blocker doors and pivotably connect the doors to the fixed structure. Deployment of the linkage mechanisms from the slots causes the blocker doors to rotate to a deployed position in which each door extends across a bypass duct of the engine and diverts bypass air within the duct through the opening.
US10006404B2
An example thrust reverser blocker door includes a blocker door that is movable from a stowed position to a deployed position. Flow moves through an area of a bypass flowpath when the blocker door is in the stowed position. The blocker door blocks no less than about 70% and no more than about 85% of flow through this area when the blocker door is in the deployed position, wherein the area does not extend circumferentially past the blocker door.
US10006402B2
An internal combustion engine piston includes a crown surface including a low thermal conductivity part lower in thermal conductivity than a base material. The low thermal conductivity part includes a porous member made of a glass material lower in thermal conductivity than the base material, and impregnated with the base material. A first material is interposed at least partly between the porous member and the base material in the low thermal conductivity part, wherein the first material is water-soluble, and has a higher melting point than the porous member.
US10006399B2
The present invention relates to a cylinder liner with a covering layer, and a wear-resistant inner layer, arranged inside of the cylinder liner, wherein a thickness of the wear-resistant inner layer, decreases on at least one axial end of the cylinder liner.
US10006396B2
A fuel injector has a storage volume, wherein the storage volume is variable in operation by a control signal.
US10006392B2
To achieve a physical quantity detection device capable of obtaining a desired overall device accuracy without unnecessarily raising the tolerances of detection elements, the present invention is characterized by having a plurality of physical quantity detection units for respectively detecting plurality of physical quantities, a storage unit for storing the error characteristics of individual physical quantity detection units, a physical quantity calculation unit for using at least two physical quantities detected by at least two of the plurality of physical quantity detection units to calculate a separate physical quantity, and an error calculation unit for reading the error characteristics of the plurality of physical quantity detection units from the storage unit and calculating the error of the separate physical quantity.
US10006386B2
A fuel vapor processing apparatus includes a vapor path connecting an adsorbent canister to a tank, where a valve is disposed in the vapor path and comprises a body and a seat, and a control unit configured to detect a movement distance of the body from the seat as a valve movement distance at a valve opening start position. This position results when a change in inner pressure of the tank after starting movement of the body toward a valve opening direction becomes greater in magnitude than a predetermined amount, wherein the control unit stores the valve movement distance in the valve opening direction as a learning value, and also stores one of two predetermined restriction values as the learning value instead of the valve movement distance when the valve movement distance is not within a range between a previously stored learning value and one of the restriction values.
US10006383B2
In a control device and method for an internal combustion engine with a supercharger, a first/second temperature sensor and a first/second air pressure sensor are respectively provided on an upstream/downstream side of a supercharging path from a compressor to a throttle valve. A control portion calculates an inflow air mass to the supercharging path and an outflow air mass from the supercharging path, calculates a throttle upstream air mass in a high operational load state from those air masses, calculates a throttle upstream air mass in a low operational load state from outputs of the first temperature sensor and the first air pressure sensor, selects either one of the throttle upstream air masses depending on an operational load state of the engine, and calculates a throttle upstream pressure based on the upstream air mass selected and a second temperature detected by the second temperature sensor.
US10006382B2
An apparatus for detecting inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio imbalance in an engine is provided. The apparatus includes a turbocharger, a bypass passage configured to bypass a turbine of the turbocharger, a waste gate valve configured to selectively close the bypass passage, an air-fuel ratio sensor installed in a portion of an exhaust passage which portion is located on a downstream side of a junction between a downstream side of the turbine and a downstream side of the bypass passage, and a determination unit programmed to compare a value of a degree of fluctuation in an output from the air-fuel ratio sensor or a parameter correlated therewith with a predetermined threshold to perform inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio imbalance determination. The determination unit is programmed not to perform the imbalance determination when an opening degree of the waste gate valve is equal to or higher than a predetermined reference value.
US10006381B2
An internal combustion engine includes a variable mechanism that changes a working angle of an intake valve. A controller diagnoses whether there is an abnormality that an intake air amount reduces during idle operation. The controller changes an abnormality determination threshold for diagnosing an abnormality on the basis of a mode in which the working angle is changed by the variable mechanism.
US10006378B2
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling valve timing of a continuous variable valve duration engine. The method may include: classifying a plurality of control regions depending on an engine speed and an engine load; applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap between the intake valve and an exhaust valve in a first control region; maintaining the maximum duration of the intake valve and applying a maximum duration to the exhaust valve in a second control region; maintaining a manifold absolute pressure (MAP) at a predetermined pressure in a third control region; controlling a throttle valve to be fully opened and generating the valve overlap in a fourth control region; and controlling the throttle valve to be fully opened and controlling intake valve closing (IVC) timing according to the engine speed in a fifth control region.
US10006363B2
An electrical power system for an aircraft including a turbine engine coupled to the aircraft and providing propulsive thrust and emitting heat during operation to define a high temperature source, a cryogenic fuel system located within the aircraft and providing fuel for the turbine and emitting heat at a lower temperature than the heat from the turbine engine to define a low temperature source and an electrical power generator located on the aircraft and having a thermodynamic generator using the temperature difference to generate electrical power and a method for producing electric power.
US10006362B2
The invention provides a vapor cracking catalyst, an application of the vapor cracking catalyst, and a preparation method of the vapor cracking catalyst. In addition, the invention also provides a direct combustion method of a hydrogen gas obtained by vapor cracking. A plenty of cheap raw materials are adopted to prepare the catalyst provided by the invention and it leads to lower cost for production. In addition, the catalyst provided by the invention is capable of controlling the vapor cracking speed steadily so that the hydrogen gas is produced steadily and occurrence of explosion accidents is avoided effectively. The direct combustion method of a hydrogen gas obtained by vapor cracking provided by the invention truly achieves for the first time the fancy of producing hydrogen energy by water.
US10006358B2
A non-Wankel rotary engine having an insert in the peripheral wall of the outer body, the insert being made of a material having a greater heat resistance than that of the peripheral wall, having a subchamber defined therein and having an inner surface bordering the cavity, the subchamber communicating with the cavity through at least one opening defined in the inner surface and having a shape forming a reduced cross-section adjacent the opening, a pilot fuel injector having a tip received in the subchamber, an ignition element having a tip received in the subchamber, and a main fuel injector extending through the housing and having a tip communicating with the cavity at a location spaced apart from the insert.
US10006339B2
A chiller system includes an intercooler configured to cool compressed charge air received from a turbocharger or a supercharger; a low temperature cooling circuit fluidly coupled to the intercooler, the low temperature cooling circuit circulating a coolant to provide cooling to the intercooler and including a low temperature radiator configured to cool the first coolant; and an air conditioner circuit circulating a refrigerant and having a primary circuit and an evaporator bypass circuit. A chiller is thermally coupled to the low temperature cooling circuit and the bypass circuit. A chiller shut off valve is configured to be controlled to be selectively opened to provide refrigerant to the chiller to further cool the coolant in the low temperature cooling circuit after the coolant is cooled by the low temperature radiator, thereby providing increased cooling to the intercooler and the compressed charge air to increase engine performance.
US10006335B2
A coolant control system of a vehicle includes an adjusting module that: (i) receives an engine output coolant temperature measured at a coolant output of an internal combustion engine; (ii) adjusts the engine output coolant temperature based on a reference temperature to produce a first adjusted coolant temperature; (iii) receives an engine input coolant temperature measured at a coolant input of the internal combustion engine; and (iv) adjusts the engine input coolant temperature based on the reference temperature to produce a second adjusted coolant temperature. The coolant control system also includes a difference module that determines a difference between the first and second adjusted coolant temperatures. The coolant control system also includes a pump control module that controls a coolant output of a coolant pump based on the difference between the first and second adjusted coolant temperatures.
US10006323B2
Disclosed are sliding cam actuators, methods for making and using such actuators, and motor vehicles with internal combustion engines employing sliding cam actuators. A sliding cam actuator is disclosed with two actuator pins projecting from an actuator housing. These pins move from retracted to extended positions and engage a shift barrel on a sliding camshaft. An actuator assembly moves each actuator pin to its extended position into engagement with the shift barrel to thereby slide the camshaft to a different location. An actuator shank is attached to the actuator housing and engaged with the actuator pins. Moving the first actuator pin to its extended position moves the actuator shank in one direction, which moves the second actuator pin towards its retracted position. Moving the second actuator pin to its extended position causes the actuator shank to move in another direction, which moves the first actuator pin towards its retracted position.
US10006313B2
The invention refers to a CCPP comprising a gas turbine, a water steam cycle with a steam turbine and a HRSG with at least two pressure levels, and a fuel preheater for preheating the fuel of the gas turbine. The fuel preheater includes a first heat exchanger for preheating the fuel to a first elevated temperature, which is connected to a feed water line from a pressure level of the HRSG, which is below the highest HRSG pressure level, and a second heat exchanger for further preheating the fuel gas to a second elevated temperature, which is connected to the high pressure feed water with the highest pressure level of the HRSG. The disclosure further refers to a method for operating a CCPP with such a fuel preheater.
US10006312B2
A method for operating a line circuit (4) for waste heat utilization of an internal combustion engine (2), and a control unit (1). A feed pump (6), at least one heat exchanger (8), an expansion machine (10), a condenser (12) and a control unit (1) are situated in the line circuit (4). The control unit (1) calculates a time period which is required until individual components or all the components of the line circuit (4) have reached a predefined temperature, in order to start up the line circuit (4) at least partially.
US10006310B2
A thermal power plant is described comprising a solar collector field and a heat storage to allow the use of the thermal energy collected by the solar field with a time delay for the production of electricity in the steam power plant.
US10006308B2
A mid-turbine frame (MTF) system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The MTF includes an inner case, an outer case and a fairing sandwiched between the inner and outer cases. The fairing includes an inner ring spaced apart from and coupled to an outer ring by a plurality of hollow struts. The hollow struts accommodate support rods that connect the inner case to the outer case. Further, the hollow struts act as turning vanes for turning the flow of gases passing from a high pressure turbine (HPT) to a low pressure turbine (LPT) for purposes of providing the correct incidence angle to the first vane of the LPT. The outer ring of the fairing includes a plurality of bosses which receive attachment pins that pass through the outer case for correctly locating the fairing with respect to the outer case and for permitting radial expansion in contraction of the fairing.
US10006295B2
Disclosed is a gas turbine engine including a compressor section and a turbine section. The gas turbine engine includes a gas turbine engine component having a first wall providing an outer surface of the gas turbine engine component and a second wall spaced-apart from the first wall. The first wall is a gas-path wall exposed to a core flow path of the gas turbine engine. The second wall is a non-gas-path wall. A cooling passageway is provided between the second wall and the first wall. The second wall has a trip strip provided thereon.
US10006281B2
A method of calibrating a coefficient of a pressure sensor for blasting operations, including striking a first piezoelectric sensor of a first unmolded pressure sensing apparatus; determining, with an interface circuit, a first peak voltage of the first piezoelectric sensor during the striking thereof, striking a second piezoelectric sensor of a second molded pressure sensing apparatus; determining with the interface circuit, a second peak voltage of the second piezoelectric sensor during the striking thereof, and calculating a piezoelectric constant of the second piezoelectric from at least the first and second peak voltages.
US10006280B2
An assembly for use in subsurface drilling includes a drill collar section having a bore extending longitudinally through an inner surface of the drill collar section. A pocket is formed in a section of the inner surface of the drill collar section. A holster is located in the pocket and a sleeve is snuggly fitted inside the bore in order to secure the holster inside the pocket. The sleeve may be sealed to the drill collar section for example by seals such as O-rings such that the holster is sealed from the bore. O-rings may be located on one or both of the inside of the inner surface of the collar or on the outside of the sleeve.
US10006276B1
The invention relates to injecting steam into crude oil for several benefits, primarily of which is to remove salt by transferring the salt into the condensed water from the steam. Steam transfers salt via a different transfer mechanism and therefore doesn't require the high shear mixing of conventional water injection systems. As such, steam injection through a variety of procedures, is more efficient at gathering salt into water that itself is easier to remove from the crude oil.
US10006273B2
Improved containment mats and systems of containment mats may include multiple adjoining mats with a top surface and a bottom surface, and a liner material placed between the top and bottom surfaces. The multiple mats may provide a modular structural mat system that may be installed at a drill site, with multiple mats placed adjacent to each other with a lap joint connecting adjacent mats. A geotextile may be used to cover the lap joints and a coating applied to the geotextile. Such a system may provide containment of potential spills, a reliable working surface for drilling operations, and relatively fast and less expensive installation. The liner and geotextile may be a 100 mil well pad liner.
US10006270B2
A circulation mechanism in a subsea assembly is selectively actuated to allow fluid communication between the riser annulus and tubing string to immediately kill the well using heavy-weight fluid in the riser annulus; perform well control operations by adjusting the weight or other properties of fluid in the tubing string or riser annulus; and/or to circulate the riser of a deep-water well undergoing well testing or intervention.
US10006265B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling a well blowout comprising: a flow control device such as a blowout preventer on a wellbore; a control fluid aperture fluidly connected with the wellbore for introducing a control fluid and/or a plug-forming agent such as a polymer, monomer, resinous, and/or crosslinkable material, through a control fluid aperture and into the primary throughbore while wellbore blowout fluid flows through the wellbore; and optionally, a weighted fluid aperture positioned in the wellbore conduit below the control fluid aperture for introducing a weighted fluid or another fluid or plug-forming agent into the wellbore.
US10006256B2
Provided is a safety joint with a moveable seal designed to prevent hydrostatic locking. The safety joint is primarily made up assembling a pin end having a first seal, a threaded connection, and a second, moveable seal to a box end. The moveable seal is disposed in a recess formed in the pin end and includes an O-ring and a spring. When the safety joint is assembled downhole, a volume of fluid may become trapped between the first seal and the second seal. The trapped fluid in turn pushes the O-ring towards the spring, thereby limiting pressure build-up by substantially maintaining the volume trapped between the first and second seals.
US10006255B2
An apparatus comprises a first number of splines located near a first end of a first joint section and a second number of splines located near a second end of a second joint section. The first number of splines extends in an axial direction of the first joint section and spans a circumferential surface of the first joint section. Each of the first number of splines has a base, a tip, and a pair of flanks that extends from the base to the tip and forms an acute angle. Each of the first number of splines are configured to be received between adjacent pairs of splines in the second number of splines as the first end of the first joint section and the second end of the second joint section are joined.
US10006253B2
Cutting elements, earth-boring drill bits having such cutting elements and related methods are described herein. In some embodiments, a cutting element for an earth-boring tool may include a diamond table having an indentation in a cutting face thereof and a shaped feature in a substrate at the interface between the diamond table and the substrate, the shaped feature corresponding to the indentation in the cutting face of the diamond table. In further embodiments, a cutting element for an earth-boring tool may include a sacrificial structure positioned within an indentation in a diamond table. In additional embodiments, a method of forming a cutting element may include positioning a sacrificial structure in a mold, positioning a powdered precursor material over the sacrificial structure, and pressing and sintering the powdered precursor material to form a diamond table having an indentation in a cutting face formed by the sacrificial structure.
US10006251B2
A digging bit includes a reaming portion whose diameter is larger than a rear end portion of a bit body, and which is formed in a front end portion of the bit body rotated around an axis, a digging tip which is arranged in a front end portion of the reaming portion, a debris groove which extends in a direction of an axis, and which is formed in an outer peripheral portion of the reaming portion, and a communication groove which communicates with the debris groove, and which is formed from the outer peripheral portion to a rear end portion of the reaming portion.
US10006250B2
According to aspects of the present disclosure, systems and methods for controlling the direction of a drilling assembly within a borehole are described herein. An example system may include a housing 201 b (FIG. 2B) and a variable flow fluid pathway 203 (FIG. 2B) within the housing 201b. A fluid-controlled drive mechanism 209 (FIG. 2C) may be in fluid communication with the variable flow fluid pathway 203. Additionally, an offset mandrel 212 may be coupled to an output of the fluid-controlled drive mechanism 209. The offset mandrel 212 may be independently rotatable with respect to the housing 201b. The system may also include a bit shaft 216 pivotably coupled to the housing 201b and coupled to an eccentric receptacle of the offset mandrel 212.
US10006249B2
An inverted drill motor according to one or more embodiments includes an outer housing rotatable about an internal shaft member whereby rotational speed is imparted to the outer housing in response to fluid flow between the outer housing and the internal shaft member, the outer housing to connect to a drill bit and a top drive shaft portion of the internal shaft member having a top end to connect to the drill string whereby the internal shaft member and the drill string rotate at the same speed. The inverted drill motor may be for example an inverted positive displacement motor or inverted turbodrill.
US10006245B1
A spring loaded tensioning device for tensioning a flexible blind control element loop to be secured in position on a building, and having a housing shell; a hinged door on the housing shell operable between an open position for insertion of the control element and a closed position, a moveable lock in the housing shell, moveable between a locking position in which it clamps onto the element, and a released position in which the lock is free of the control element; and, a spring urging the lock to clamp onto the control element.
US10006240B2
A door includes a door frame, first and second door skins having rectangular outer peripheries and inner openings, and a frameless glazed unit received at the openings. The door skins include exterior surfaces facing away from the door frame and opposite interior surfaces facing and secured to opposite sides of the door frame. The exterior and interior surfaces of the first and second door skins establish integral lips and grooves of the first and second door skins. Opposite sides of the frameless glazed unit directly contact and are sealed by the integral lips and sealant and/or adhesive contained in the grooves of the first and second door skins.
US10006234B2
A guide block for stabilizing an edge of a glass panel relative to a surface is disclosed. The guide block includes a block base having a body of variable size and shape configured for mounting on the surface. The block base defines at least one fastening screw receiving hole on top and on a side thereof. The guide block further includes a mounting member having a pin extending therefrom an inner side of the mounting member. The block base has a front and a rear such that the front is configured to receive the pin in a hole therethrough such that the block base and the mounting member stabilize the edge of the glass panel disposed therebetween and the rear is configured as a receiving channel for stabilizing an edge of a sliding glass door disposed therein.
US10006232B2
A window vent stop for use in a sliding sash window assembly or a sliding door assembly. The vent stop has a housing adapted to be disposed in a recess in a non-movable sash member. A tumbler has at least one pivot for pivotally securing the tumbler to the housing for movement between an extended position, to prevent movement of a sliding member and a retracted position to allow movement of the sliding member. Also within the housing is a spring for biasing the tumbler. The housing has one or more flexible members extending from the end walls of the housing that secure the housing to an opening in the non-movable sash member.
US10006230B2
An actuator integrated push opener includes a fuel inlet door of a vehicle to open and close a vehicle fuel inlet. A housing accommodates a motor having a worm mounted on a rotational shaft and has a guide hole formed. A striker is mounted in the housing, penetrates through the guide hole, and is connected to the fuel inlet door. A gear is mounted in the housing and engaged with the worm. A catch has an inserting protrusion which is inserted into a through-hole formed in the striker and mounted in the housing to rotate based on a rotation center of the gear. A gear spring is provided in the catch so that the catch constantly rotates in a direction toward the striker. A stopper is mounted to the gear to limit the rotation of the catch.
US10006226B2
A latch assembly comprises a latch bolt and a tailpiece including a first tailpiece member mounted to the latch bolt and a second tailpiece member. The second tailpiece member is movably received in a bore of the first tailpiece member and operably connected to a latch operator. The second tailpiece member is received in one of two axially spaced recesses in the bore in a first backset position and a second backset position. Relative axial movement between the first tailpiece member and the second tailpiece member is prevented in a first relative rotational position in the first backset position and in a second relative rotational position in the second backset position, and relative axial movement is allowed in a third relative rotational position to allow the second tailpiece member to be moved between the first backset position and the second backset position. A housing slidably receives the latch bolt therein and a casing defining a peripheral slot having two axially spaced circumferential portions interconnected by a longitudinal portion receives the housing such that a protrusion on the housing is slidably received in the slot. Relative axial movement between the casing and the housing is prevented when the protrusion is in either one of the two circumferential portions of the slot in a first rotational position in the first backset position and in a second rotational position in the second backset position, and relative axial movement is allowed in a third rotational position to allow the protrusion on the housing to be movable along the longitudinal passage between the circumferential portions of the slot when transitioning between the first backset position and the second backset position.
US10006224B2
A lock cylinder comprises a cylinder housing, a disk housing rotatably supported about a cylinder axis in the cylinder housing and a plurality of rotatably supported disk tumblers arranged along the cylinder axis in the disk housing, wherein each disk tumbler has a reception opening for a key, a blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a blocking pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis and a fixing cut-out provided offset from the blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a core pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis. The disk tumblers are rotatable from a starting position with a removed key into an end sorting position by a rotation of the introduced key in the latching direction, in which end sorting position the blocking cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis. The fixing cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another in the end sorting position, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis. The lock cylinder is adapted such that, on a further rotation of the disk tumblers out of the end sorting position in the unlatching direction, the core pin first engages into the fixing cut-outs and the blocking pin only then engages into the blocking cut-outs.
US10006218B2
A prefabricated white chamber structure is adapted to be periodically sanified and washed and comprises one or more shop pre-assembled modules, including all the necessary utility assemblies and adapted to be re-assembled at a use site.
US10006209B2
A modular tile adapted for mounting onto a flat surface, comprising an edge connector; an edge receiver configured to accommodate the connector; and a plurality of flat units, wherein each unit comprises a central opening with two dimensions with a first dimension smaller than a second dimension. The modular tiles are connected by releasably securing an edge connector of a first modular tile to an edge receiver of a second modular tile.
US10006206B2
An awning arm is provided in which internal components are concealed and in which tension is adjustable. The arm includes an elbow that includes an outer knuckle that includes a top tang and a bottom tang, the tangs rotatably engaged to a circular encasement of an inner knuckle via a plurality of bushings. Two hubs are concealed by the encasement and the tangs, the hubs secured within the two tangs. A webbing is secured within the hubs, a pull upon the webbing urging the rotation of the hubs and consequently the outer knuckle and the elbow as a whole. Arm extrusions are attached to the outer and inner knuckles, with the rotation of the elbow causing the bending and straightening of the arm. Components that prevent the arm from overextending are concealed within the elbow.
US10006202B2
The buckling-restrained brace that is capable of being fixed to connected portions of a structure using bolts, the brace includes: a plate member extending in an axial direction, and in which bolt holes for fixing the bolts are formed at end portions of the plate member in the axial direction; and a buckling-restrained member configured to restrain a center portion of the plate member in the axial direction to prevent the plate member from buckling, wherein the buckling-restrained member includes a pipe member surrounding the plate member from the outside in a radial direction, and a filler filling the gap between the pipe member and the plate member, and the plate member includes a fixing plate, a portion of which is embedded in the filler, and the remaining portion is protruded from the filler in the axial direction, and in which the bolt hole is formed at an end portion of the remaining portion in the axial direction.
US10006201B2
A structural support beam for use in buildings, bridges, mechanical frames and the like to resist bending due to gravitational and external forces comprising a top substantially flat flange disposed in fixed spaced relationship relative to a bottom substantially concave flange by an interconnecting web and a lower stabilizing brace disposed to engage the opposite end portions of the bottom substantially concave flange and the opposite end portions of the interconnecting web to reinforce the interconnection therebetween.
US10006198B2
Frame wall constructions are strengthened against lateral forces. A fiber mesh is applied to one side of the stick members as the wall is constructed. A rigid polymer foam is applied between the stick members. It encapsulates the fiber mesh and upon curing adheres to the stick members. No rigid sheathing material such as oriented strand board is needed to produce a frame wall construction having excellent racking strength resistance. The rigid polymeric foam also insulates and seals the structure.
US10006196B1
A shape-morphing space frame (SMSF) utilizing the linear bistable compliant crank-slider mechanism (LBCCSM). The frame's initial shape is constructed from a single-layer grid of flexures, rigid links and LBCCSMs. The grid is bent into the space frame's initial cylindrical shape, which can morph because of the inclusion of LBCCSMs in its structure. The design parameters include the frame's initial height, its tessellation pattern (including the unit cell bistable elements' placement), its initial diameter, and the resulting desired shape. The method used in placing the unit cell bistable elements considers the principle stress trajectories. Two different examples of shape-morphing space frames are presented herein, each starting from a cylindrical-shell space frame and morphing, one to a hyperbolic-shell space frame and the other to a spherical-shell space frame, both morphing by applying moments, which shear the cylindrical shell, and forces, which change the cylinder's radius using Poisson's effect.
US10006193B1
A lightweight steel construction includes a plurality of beams and rafters. Each of the beams includes two opposite C-shaped steels. Two ends of the two C-shaped steels are respectively positioned by two first positioning members in a length direction of the C-shaped steels. Several beams can be assembled with each other via the first positioning members to be formed as a crossbeam and a column of a building. Each of the rafters includes a C-shaped steel. Two ends of the C-shaped steel are respectively positioned by two second positioning members in the length direction of the C-shaped steel. Several rafters can be positioned between adjacent beams via the second positioned members to be formed as a floor surface, a wall surface, and a roof of the supporting frame of the building.
US10006192B2
A floor cleaning device for automatically cleaning in front of and around lavatory appliances like urinals, toilets, sinks, and hand drying devices, wherein the floor cleaning device has a fixed unit, a mobile unit, and an extension mechanism connected to the fixed unit and the mobile unit that sprays disinfectant solution and recovers or removes waste solution during the extension or retraction of the mobile unit from and to the fixed unit.
US10006191B1
A shelf is arranged to pivot about a pivot zone. The shelf has a center of gravity offset from the pivot zone. The shelf has a first angular range about the pivot zone configured to situate a linkage in a valve activation position. The shelf has a second angular range about the pivot zone mechanically configured to situate the linkage in a valve de-activation position. An interaction portion is mechanically configured to urge the shelf from the first angular range to the second angular range by a float moving in a first direction.
US10006162B2
A clothes dryer may rely on a hybrid heat source for drying clothes. In some embodiments, the clothes dryer may rely on a combination of electrical energy to power the clothes dryer and hydronic heat to dry clothes. The hydronic heat may, for example, use hot water from an outdoor wood boiler circulated into a hydronic coil. Air passing over the hydronic coil may be warmed and delivered to the clothes dryer. The hybrid heat clothes dryer may reduce energy consumption from about 27 amperes to about 3 amperes.
US10006159B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a body provided with a laundry inlet; and a door configured to open or close the laundry inlet, wherein the door includes a door frame having a first opening portion facing the laundry inlet and a second opening portion corresponding to a display module mounted at an inside in a state that the door is closed; and a door cover coupled to the door frame to form an appearance of the door, the door cover includes a non-light-transmitting region, and a first light transmitting region corresponding to the first opening portion and a second light transmitting region corresponding to the second opening portion within the non-light-transmitting region, and a mounting guide for an alignment between the first opening portion and the first light transmitting region and an alignment between the second opening portion and the second light transmitting region is provided on at least one of the door frame and door cover during mutual coupling.
US10006154B2
Techniques for operating a loom to produce multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom. Conventionally, a loom produces a single textile during each single operation of the loom. When producing multiple different textiles during a single operation of the loom, a single run of the mill may generate the multiple different textiles for multiple different customers. In some embodiments, during a single operation of a loom, the loom may generate a single piece of loom-finished fabric that includes multiple different textiles for multiple different customers and, following the single run of the mill, the single piece of loom-finished fabric may be cut apart to yield the different textiles, which may be one, two, more than five, more than ten, or any suitable number of different textiles for any suitable number of different customers.
US10006153B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a carbon fiber that can be suitably used as a transparent conductive material for forming transparent flexible conductive films and the like, more particularly, to a method for producing a carbon fiber having an outermost surface composed of edges of graphenes, and to a carbon fiber produced by the production method. The production method comprises a step of pre-baking a fiber of an organic compound so as to contain remaining hydrogen, and a step of putting the pre-baked fiber of the organic compound in a closed vessel made of a heat resistant material and subjecting the pre-baked fiber together with the vessel to hot isostatic pressing treatment using a compressed gas atmosphere, wherein a maximum ultimate temperature in the hot isostatic pressing treatment is 1000 to 2000° C.
US10006151B2
Provided is a fragrance-retaining fiber that, after absorption of a fragrance component, retains the fragrance even though a long period of time has passed. In particular, provided is a fragrance-retaining polyurethane-based fiber having, 48 hours after absorption of a fragrance component, a total fragrance component emission of from 0.1 μg/g·h to 1000 μg/g·h.
US10006145B2
A doping system for introducing liquid dopant into a melt of semiconductor or solar-grade material includes a dopant reservoir for holding dopant and a feeding tube. The dopant reservoir includes a body and a tapered end defining an opening having a smaller cross-sectional area than a cross-sectional area of the body. The feeding tube includes a first end extending from the opening of the reservoir, a second end distal from the first end, an angled tip disposed at the second end of the feeding tube, a first restriction for inhibiting the passage of solid dopant through the feeding tube, and a second restriction for controlling the flow of liquid dopant, the second restriction disposed near the second end of the feeding tube.
US10006143B2
Providing a power-supplying member capable of desirably performing plating for a long period of time. A second power-supplying member is brought into contact with an article to be plated to apply negative voltage to the article. The article is disposed in a state such that a space in which a plating solution flows is defined between an anode and the article. The second power-supplying member includes a center member made from copper and a covering member made from titanium and covering at least a part of a periphery of the center member. The part is wetted with the plating solution.
US10006138B2
A copper foil includes a copper-based metal sheet including mainly a copper, and a surface-treated layer that is provided on the copper-based metal sheet and includes an amorphous layer including oxygen and a metal with a higher oxygen affinity than a copper. A total thickness of the copper-based metal sheet and the surface-treated layer is less than 0.55 mm.
US10006134B1
In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a metal microstructure includes forming a non-conductive polymer membrane having a plurality of pores, coating at least one end of the membrane and inner surfaces of the pores with a conductive material to form a conductive coating, electrodepositing a metal on the conductive coating, and dissolving the membrane to obtain a free-standing metal microstructure having at least one metal end plate and multiple elongated metal members extending therefrom.
US10006131B1
There is disclosed an electrochemical deblocking solution for use on an electrode microarray. There is further disclosed a method for electrochemical synthesis on an electrode array using the electrochemical deblocking solution. The solution and method are for removing acid-labile protecting groups for synthesis of oligonucleotides, peptides, small molecules, or polymers on a microarray of electrodes while substantially improving isolation of deblocking to active electrodes. The method comprises applying a voltage or a current to at least one electrode of an array of electrodes. The array of electrodes is covered by the electrochemical deblocking solution.
US10006128B2
Disclosed herein are corrosion inhibiting compounds and compositions useful in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the compounds and compositions as corrosion inhibitors, particularly in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas.
US10006123B2
A method for chemical vapor deposition on a substrate is disclosed. The method may include directing a process gas into a reaction chamber, and heating the process gas in the reaction chamber. Heating the process gas in the reaction chamber may decompose the process gas to thereby generate a plurality of decomposition products. The method may also include applying one or more biasing fields and/or waves to the process gas upstream of the substrate, and reacting the process gas with the substrate. The one or more biasing fields and/or waves may include electromagnetic waves, electric fields, and/or magnetic fields. The biasing fields and/or waves may urge at least a portion of the process gas towards or away from the substrate.
